*Cesarean Delivery and Mental Health DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.108847*


*‡‡Mann-Whitney test.*

#### **Table 1.**

*Sample characteristics in total and according to the type of cesarean delivery.*

#### **3.2 The prevalence of PTSD symptoms among postpartum women**

The prevalence of PTSD with Profile PTSD was 14.3% in women with EMCS and 4.1% in women with ELCS, while the prevalence of PTSD in women with EMCS was 31.7% and 1% in women with ELCS (**Figure 2**).


*‡ Student's t-test.*

#### **Table 2.**

*Pregnancy and delivery characteristics.*

**Figure 1.** *Type of CS and rates of breastfeeding.*

**Figure 2.** *Proportions of women with PTSD according to type of cesarean delivery.*

**Table 3** shows an overview of PTSD profile and PTSD symptoms in women after EMCS and ELCS. Among the postpartum women, the prevalence of criterion A is 25.6% (ELCS = 7.2% and EMCS = 54%) and those who met the other four criteria of symptoms is between 19 and 26.3% (ELCS = 7.2–10.3% and EMCS = 36.4–52.5%). After cesarean delivery, a total of 13.1% of women after CS met the all PTSD criteria according to the DSM-5.


#### **Table 3.**

*PTSD profile and PTSD symptoms in women after EMCS and ELCS.*



*++Fisher's exact test.*

#### **Table 4.**

*Risk factors for PTSD after cesarean delivery.*
