• Maternal mental health is one of the public health concerns as it has a debilitating effect on the mother, child, and family in total.

• However, awareness of these conditions is lacking in our health system.

• A quasi-experimental, single-group interventional study is in the planning stage to develop and evaluate a video-based tool to improve awareness and reduce stigma related to maternal mental illnesses.

• The study is planned to be conducted among 128 postpartum mothers within 6 months of their delivery.

• The study will be conducted among the mothers visiting the immunization OPDs of the UHTC and RHTC of a medical college in Bangalore, Karnataka.

• The Postpartum Depression Literacy Scale will be used to assess the effectiveness of the intervention.

• Further, this intervention can help in identifying mothers with postpartum depression, which will thus ensure early diagnosis and appropriate treatment.

• However, one of the biggest limitations of the study is the lack of a control group to compare the effectiveness of the intervention

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