Screening for postpartum depression is a valuable safeguard. It is not, however, all we have to do. There is little debate that our most reliable and valid screening tool for postpartum depression, ...

Editor’s Note: This article was revised in May 2024 to reflect newly available peripartum mental health data and the 2023 ACOG clinical practice guideline pertaining to screening for mental health ...

Nurse education is the key to successfully screening women for postpartum depression, which affects some 15% of mothers, according to a new quality improvement (QI) study from Cedars-Sinai. Training ...

After giving birth, new mothers typically return for a follow-up appointment six to eight weeks later. But if postpartum depression symptoms emerge, “that can be a really long time for someone who is ...

What Is the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)? The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is an easy-to-take, self-administered questionnaire that you can use to screen yourself, or a ...

February 18, 2010 — Depression is prevalent in low-income, urban, postpartum mothers and can be accurately identified using depression screening tools, according to the results of a study reported ...

LOS ANGELES — Researchers have developed and externally validated a simple, machine learning model that can help identify women at a high risk for postpartum depression (PPD) immediately after ...

A month after Melanie Blocker-Stokes gave birth, she stopped eating and sleeping. She had convinced herself that she was a terrible mother, and she was paranoid that the neighbors thought so too. Over ...

Share on Pinterest New research shows that antidepressants improve symptoms of postpartum and postnatal depression in new mothers. Cavan Images/Getty Images A new study finds a type of antidepressant ...