The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale scoring How do I use the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Score calculator? Tips to cope with postnatal depression Postnatal screening tools similar to the Edinburgh scale FAQs Instructions:Please select the answer that comes closest to how you have feltin the pas...
In a large cohort of women receiving public perinatal care in Sydney, Australia, we examined: (1) the psychosocial and obstetric determinants of women who signal distress on EPDS screening (scoring 10–12) compared with women with probable depression (scoring 13 or more on EPDS screening); and...
A prospective cohort of 714 women in their third trimester of pregnancy completed the EPDS while waiting for their antenatal visit. Women scoring 12 or more on the EPDS, and a random sample of low scores were assessed with the Schedule for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry to establish ...
Jomeen J, Martin CR (2008) Reflections on the notion of post-natal depression following examination of the scoring pattern of women on the EPDS during pregnancy and in the post-natal period. J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 15:645-648Jomeen, J. and Martin, C. R. 2008 . Reflections on the...
scoringhormonalPurpose: This study aimed to investigate the effects of endorphin massage on B-endorphin level and EPDS score in women with postpartum blues. Material and Methods: Twenty postpartum women volunteered for the study. All of them gave written consent regarding their participation. The ...
Recently, research has shown that during early pregnancy around half of the women scoring as 'possibly depressed' on the EPDS only have transient distress, when re-tested after few weeks. This finding may not occur if women are screened later in pregnancy, as their worries then may be more ...
was excluded from the screen criterion.ConclusionAddition of the MDQ to the EPDS improved the distinction of unipolar depression from bipolar depression at the level of screening in 50% of women with traditional MDQ scoring and by nearly 70% when the MDQ was scored without the impairment ...
Independent from scoring by the patients, the treating doctors also expressed their impressions about the same patients using the same scoring tool. Results Stepwise multiple regression analysis of the EPDS scores of both doctors and patients revealed that a clinical diagnosis of psychosis was the ...