Participants’ mean PPSC score was 1

Participants’ mean PPSC score was 11.00 (SD = 5.93, range = 0–37). Nearly all (99.7%) women reported at
least one symptom, indicating that they had not fully recovered from childbirth at 6 weeks postpartum. Moreover,
participants’ top five symptoms were backache (91.1%, n = 298), poor sleep quality (91.1%, n = 298), exhaustion
(74.3%, n = 243), vaginal discharge (64.8%,n = 212), and cesarean section wound or perineal pain (56.9%, n = 186).