University Waikato student Shaun Neville wants parents to participate in his survey to help those with postnatal depression (file photo). Immigrants are nearly twice as likely to get postnatal depression than New Zealand-born parents and a Waikato University student wants to know how to get those rates down. Namely, social support that parents receive from within their households, social support from their family and social support in terms of friends and community involvement. "Almost one in four people living in New Zealand aren't born here and their rates of postnatal depression are nearly twice what the general population are. Because the more we understand how the people who don't have postnatal depression got to where they don't have postnatal depression the more we could potentially help those who do."

Source: Stuff July 22, 2019 00:22 UTC