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Introduction and rationale for the project

The topic that has been chosen for discussion in the current project is domestic violence in Postnatal Depression. The Project has been carried out through different processes such as literature review, development and presentation of the findings and the variables along with the sampling size and the technique that has been adopted for the proposed research study. The appropriate data collection instrument has also been identified to derive valid findings for the research study. The rationale for the current research is directly associated with the importance of the issues that have been taken up for discussion in the current project i.e. association between domestic violence and postnatal depression.

The issue has been of increasing concern for the relevant authorities as more and more cases related to this issue has been reported where abuse from the partner has been directly associated with the problems being faced by women in their postnatal stage. Therefore, considering the importance of this issue, the researcher has taken up this topic to identify and clarify the factors that have a significant impact on the postnatal depression being faced by women. Furthermore, the rationale of this project also includes the identification of the different factors that are primarily concerned with the issue related to female condition and situation in the cases of postnatal and the depression from which they generally go through. The study has been conducted to shed light on this issue so that awareness can be created among women and the concerned individuals regarding how to curb the violence and the suffering that females go through during and after the process of giving birth to their child.

Literature review

In the view of Thurgood, Avery and Williamson (2009) postpartum depression (PPD) is a common psychiatric illness in many women of diverse cultures. It has been identified as a major public health problem. The prevalence of PPD varies in different countries. However, many researchers have focused on the brutality with women by their partners at the time of pregnancy.

A study was conducted in order to illustrate the prevalence and risk of violence against women during and after pregnancy by their partners. The results concluded that the higher number of women faces violence and brutality after the birth of the child for around 5 months.

The researchers also found out that the brutality done to the women by the partner was associated with the consumption of drugs, alcohol or the other family member of the family was being dominant and forcing the other partner to abuse the women physically, sexually or mentally (Aguir, Marques, Artazcoz, Romito, Perez & Baena, 2012).

The researchers have also suggested that the people should work more on the laws related to women safety and must extend and put other strategies into practice so that they could save the women, their health and the child from this brutality. This could lessen the risk of future oppression and unfair treatments and could work for the safety of women. Moreover, the crime survey centre of Britain has anticipated that around twenty-four per cent of the women has been a domestic violence victim (Nongrum, Thomas, Lionel and Jacob, 2014).

It was concerned with the major health issues, incorporated of physical abuse, problems related to gynaecology, stress and depression material abuse, sexual abuse, and psychiatric morbidity. It was also found that the children themselves were the witness of such violence on the women and the risk of building up problems related to emotions, behaviour and education was associated with it at a higher pace (Malta, McDonald, Hegadoren, Weller and Tough, 2012).

This witnessing of violence was also a reason of worse children results.  Another study has reported that this abusing during the time of pregnancy was a reason of increased complications during preterm labour, reduction in the weight of the baby, miscarriages and death of the fetal in women (Flach, Leese, Heron, Evans, Feder, Sharp and Howard, 2011).

However, in the view of Desmarais, Pritchard, Lowder and Janssen (2014) domestic violence has been reported at a global level and has been a major concern in the major developed and developing the country as an issue related to public health. It is been reported that this kind of violence’s has a higher rate in India and is expected to rise in the future.

Studies have also found out that this violence leads to major health issues such as spreading of infections, transplanting HIV into women, increasing depression and anxiety leading to neurological disorders and attempting of suicide. Furthermore, it has been argued by Escribà‐Agüir, Royo‐Marqués, Artazcoz, Romito, Ruiz‐Pérez and Martín‐Baena (2013) the violence at the time of pregnancy has found to cause other serious health issues among women such as less weight of the child and other gynaecological problems…