Prevalence and Predictors of Postpartum Depression Among Male Partners Who Came to Postnatal Follow-up Clinic with Their Partner in Selected Public Health Centers of Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia, 2019.

Four hundred and ten partners participated in this study making a response rate of 97%. Seventy (17%) of the participants had paternal postpartum depression. Family income (AOR=3.0; 95%CI: 1.1-8.2), substance use (AOR=4.5; 95%CI: 1.5-13.3), family support (AOR=3.9; 95%CI: 1.3-11.3), marital relation (AOR=4.1; 95%CI: 1.5-11.0), unplanned pregnancy (AOR=3.5; 95%CI: 1.4-8.7) and infant sleeping problems (AOR=10.0; 95%CI: 4.1-24.0) were variables significantly associated with paternal postnatal depression.