postpartum depression

endogenous depression that involves intense, sustained and sometimes disabling depression experienced by women after giving birth. The comprehensive term "Perinatal depression" refers to both postpartum depression and antenatal depression.

Class type of: puerperal disorders, mental disorder complicating pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium, endogenous depression Q935129

Facts

10 properties

Instance of: class of disease, symptom or sign^[6]
Facet of: women's health^[11]
Subclass of: puerperal disorders, mental disorder complicating pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium, endogenous depression, maternal depression
Different from: maternity blues, matrescence^[13]^[14]
Drug or therapy used for treatment: (S)-duloxetine, sertraline, zuranolone^[18]^[19]^[20]
Health specialty: psychiatry, psychotherapy, clinical psychology^[15]^[16]^[17]
ICPC 2 ID: P76^[7]
NCI Thesaurus ID: C92852^[12]
On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine, gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia, WikiProject Psychiatry, WikiProject Psychology^[21]^[22]^[23]^[24]
Symptoms and signs: crying, depression, fatigue^[8]^[9]^[10]

🏷️ Also known as

en Depressive Episode with Postpartum Onset en Depression, Post-Partum en Major Depressive Episode with Peripartum Onset en Perinatal Depression en postnatal depression en Post Natal Depression en postpartum depression en Post-Partum Depression en Postpartum Depression en Post Partum Depression en Post-Natal Depression en PPD en Depression, Postnatal en Depression, Post-Natal en Depression, Postpartum ar إكتئاب مابعد الولادة ar اكتئاب ما بعد الولادة cs poporodní deprese da fødselsdepression de Postpartale Psychose

🔖 Identifiers · 48

Library of Congress Authorities ID: sh85105565
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Postpartum Depression Awareness.jpg ↗
Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID: 22538, 60971
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID: scot/2554
BBC News topic ID: cl7zz1x0z6gt
BBC Things ID: 5b48076f-9bc0-42d4-879d-fc448578dd37
BNCF Thesaurus ID: 18577
BVPB authority ID: 101629
BabelNet ID: 00993675n
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 123314854
Disease Ontology ID: DOID:9478
DiseasesDB: 10921

Show all 48 identifiers +36

EMedicine ID: 271662
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026): RvzNK
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021): 39598
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: topic/postpartum-depression
Exact match: purl.obolibrary.org, identifiers.org
Experimental Factor Ontology ID: 0007453
FAST ID: 1073212
Freebase ID: /m/017qg_
GPnotebook ID: -818,610,164
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID: barseldepresjon
Harper's tag: postpartum-depression
ICD-10-CM: F53
ICD-11 ID (Foundation): 169328648
ICD-11 ID (MMS): 6E20.0
ICD-9 ID: 648.4
J9U entity ID: 987007529551205171
JSTOR topic ID (archived): postpartum-depression
KBpedia ID: PostPartumDepression
MeSH descriptor ID: D019052
MeSH tree code: C12.050.703.844.253, F03.600.300.350
MedlinePlus ID: 007215
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2.9B (2.9B–2.9B, n=3)
Mondo ID: MONDO_0005929
NHS Health A to Z ID: post-natal-depression
NL CR AUT ID: ph136492
PatientsLikeMe condition ID: postpartum-depression
Quora topic ID: Postpartum-Depression, Post-Natal-Depression
SVKKL authority ID: h0002655-poporodni-deprese
Store medisinske leksikon ID: fødselsdepresjon
UK Parliament thesaurus ID: 349721
UMLS CUI: C0221074
WikiProjectMed ID: Postpartum depression, Postpartum_depression
WordLift URL: data.medicalrecords.com
YSO ID: 21195
Yale LUX ID: concept/14fe032c-5c19-4fa9-9e24-33d99b2a1acd
Zhihu topic ID: 20013060

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🔗 Connections

Subclass of 4

disease, depression, mood disorder, puerperal disorders

Drug or therapy used for treatment 3

sertraline, (S)-duloxetine, zuranolone

Health specialty 3

psychiatry, psychotherapy, clinical psychology

Symptoms and signs 3

depression, crying, fatigue

Instance of 2

mental disorder, symptom or sign

On focus list of Wikimedia project 2

WikiProject Medicine, WikiProject Psychology

← Medical condition treated 2

sertraline, (S)-duloxetine

Different from 1

maternity blues

Facet of 1

women's health

← Different from 1

maternity blues

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Summary

postpartum depression is a class of disease^[1]. It is a type of puerperal disorders^[2], mental disorder complicating pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium^[3], endogenous depression^[4], and maternal depression^[5].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[6] ↑ postpartum depression — instance of (P31): symptom or sign. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ postpartum depression — subclass of (P279): puerperal disorders. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ postpartum depression — subclass of (P279): mental disorder complicating pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ postpartum depression — subclass of (P279): endogenous depression. Disease Ontology. Retrieved 2020-11-30. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ postpartum depression — subclass of (P279): maternal depression. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ postpartum depression — ICPC 2 ID (P667): P76. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ postpartum depression — symptoms and signs (P780): crying. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ postpartum depression — symptoms and signs (P780): depression. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ postpartum depression — symptoms and signs (P780): fatigue. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ postpartum depression — facet of (P1269): women's health. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ postpartum depression — NCI Thesaurus ID (P1748): C92852. Disease Ontology. Retrieved 2018-07-11. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ postpartum depression — different from (P1889): maternity blues. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ postpartum depression — different from (P1889): matrescence. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ postpartum depression — health specialty (P1995): psychiatry. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ postpartum depression — health specialty (P1995): psychotherapy. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ postpartum depression — health specialty (P1995): clinical psychology. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ postpartum depression — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): (S)-duloxetine. Drug Indications Extracted from FAERS. Retrieved 2018-10-02. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ postpartum depression — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): sertraline. Drug Indications Extracted from FAERS. Retrieved 2018-10-02. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ postpartum depression — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): zuranolone. fda.gov. fda.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ postpartum depression — on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008): WikiProject Medicine. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ postpartum depression — on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008): gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ postpartum depression — on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008): WikiProject Psychiatry. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ postpartum depression — on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008): WikiProject Psychology. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ postpartum depression is an instance of class of disease (Q112193867) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

4d ago · VastV0idInSpace0 · 2026-11-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗

NHS Health A to Z ID → post-natal-depression

"Created claim: NHS Health A to Z ID: post-natal-depression, Matched to Postnatal depression (#82903066) in…"
5d ago · Magnus Manske · 2026-11-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗

BVPB authority ID → 101629

"Created claim: BVPB authority ID: 101629, batch #294593"
9d ago · VastV0idInSpace0 · 2026-11-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗

WikiProjectMed ID → Postpartum depression, Postpartum_depression

"Created claim: WikiProjectMed ID: Postpartum_depression, Matched to Postpartum depression (#144200800) in…"
8w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Harper's tag → postpartum-depression

"Created claim: Harper's tag: postpartum-depression, Matched to postpartum depression (#289948993) in…"
18w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → RvzNK

"Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
19w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Subclass of → puerperal disorders, mental disorder complicating pregnancy, childbirth, or the p, endogenous depression +1

Instance of → class of disease, symptom or sign

"Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #39742: subclass of disease, not instance"
22w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗

SVKKL authority ID → h0002655-poporodni-deprese

"Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: h0002655-poporodni-deprese, batch #259497"
26w ago · Mowsenter · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Facet of → women's health

Drug or therapy used for treatment → (S)-duloxetine, sertraline, zuranolone

Health specialty → psychiatry, psychotherapy, clinical psychology

Symptoms and signs → crying, depression, fatigue

+ 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"Added reference: MeSH tree code: C12.050.703.844.253"

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