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1. Is the following item a cause or an effect of postpartum depression?
Changes such as moving
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2. Is the following item a cause or an effect of postpartum depression?
Loss of pleasure in everyday things
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3. Is the following item a cause or an effect of postpartum depression?
Sleep disturbances
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4. Is the following item a cause or an effect of postpartum depression?
Death of someone close
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5. Is the following item a cause or an effect of postpartum depression?
Crying
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6. Is the following item a cause or an effect of postpartum depression
Feelings of worthlessness
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7. The topic of the passage is
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8. Which sentence in the following paragraph best expresses the central idea of the passage?
1An added difficulty for many women after the birth of a child is a period of depressed mood, often called the "maternity blues" or "postpartum blues." 2Estimates vary, but Western studies suggest that something between half and three-quarters of all women go through a brief period of frequent crying and feeling unexpectedly low in mood. 3Most women pass through this depression in a few days and then return to a more positive and stable mood state. 4But somewhere between 10 and 25 percent of women appear to experience a longer-lasting and more severe postpartum mood disturbance, commonly called a postpartum depression—a pattern found in studies in Australia, China, Sweden, and Scotland as well as in the United States.
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9. Identify the kind of transition in bold print in the following passage.
However, these differences did not persist after the mother's depression lifted; at 16 months Fleming could find no differences in mother-child interaction between the mothers who had been depressed and the mothers who had not.
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10. How many women are affected by some form of postpartum depression?
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Objective
Step 2: Answer the questions that follow, based on the textbook passage in your book.