IRCT201202159027N1 IRCT 2012-04-09 Deputy of Reaserch, Faculty of Medicnie, Shahid Beheshti University of Medica The effect of volunteer’s telephone-based support on the effect of telephone-based support on postnatal depression The effect of volunteer’s telephone-based support on the effect of volunteers' telephone-based support on decreasing the postnatal depression decreasing the postnatal depression 2012-04-21 anticipated 54 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/9651 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Not blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Supportive. N/A Postnatal depression. Intervention 1: The intervention group 1 will receive routine postpartum care plus volunteers’ telephone-based supports till 6 weeks. Eight health volunteers will be trained and every of them will cover 3-4 mothers for 2-3 times per week, telephone-based supporting. During every call after greeting, they will ask their health status, mood and relationship with their newborns and whether there is any problem? They will solve the problem according to their training guidance. They will be in close contact with the main researcher and should not talk to the other volunteers in this regard. The control group do not receive this support and only receive routine postpartum care. At the end of 6 weeks, EPDS will be filled again in two groups and the depression scores were calculated. Intervention 2: Interventeion group 2: The intervention group two will receive only routine postnatal care and have the same characteristic as intervention group one.