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Awareness of postpartum depression (PPD) before pregnancy and childbirth may help women recognize reproductive mental health concerns earlier, yet conventional health education can struggle with engagement and stigma.
Music-based educational intervention is beneficial for improving postpartum depression awareness, reproductive health literacy, emotional regulation, and psychological resilience among female university students.
Awareness of postpartum depression (PPD) before pregnancy and childbirth may help women recognize reproductive mental health concerns earlier, yet conventional health education can struggle with engagement and stigma. In this quasi-experimental study, researchers therefore explored whether integrating music into reproductive mental health education could improve PPD awareness and related psychosocial outcomes among students.
The study included 350 female undergraduate and postgraduate students from selected public and private universities in China. Subjects were segregated into exposed and non-exposed groups based on whether they received a structured educational intervention incorporating music to promote awareness of reproductive mental health and PPD. A structured, self-administered questionnaire assessed five key domains:
Comparative analyses explored differences between the groups, while multivariate regression analysis examined the link between intervention exposure and PPD awareness after controlling for sociodemographic factors.
Students exposed to the music-based educational intervention illustrated higher levels of all assessed outcomes than their non-exposed counterparts, with differences reaching p < 0.001 for:
In multivariable regression analysis, participation in the music-integrated educational program emerged as the most influential factor connected with greater PPD awareness.
Structured, music-based educational interventions offer a culturally aligned and non-stigmatizing preventive strategy to boost PPD awareness and reproductive mental health literacy among young women. Embedding music-integrated psychoeducation within higher education curricula serves as an impactful upstream public health strategy to prepare future mothers and minimize the long-term burden of perinatal mental health disorders.
African Journal of Reproductive Health
Teaching music, shaping care: the role of music-based educational interventions in postpartum depression reproductive awareness among female university students
Jingye Shen et al.
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