Screening for Depression

Screening for Depression

· Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale

· Zung Self-Rating Scale for Depression

· Platelet serotonin levels support depression scores for women with postpartum depression (Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, 2007)

· Validation of the Edinburgh postpartum depression scale in a population of puerperal women in Mexico (Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health, 2006)

· Evaluation of the Edinburgh Post Natal Depression Scale using Rasch analysis (BMC Psychiatry, 2006)

· A survey of the clinical acceptability of screening for postnatal depression in depressed and non-depressed women (BMC Public Health, 2006)

· Effectiveness of the Antenatal Psychosocial Health Assessment (ALPHA) form in detecting psychosocial concerns: a randomized controlled trial (Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2005)

· Assessing for psychosocial morbidity in pregnant women (Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2005)

· Perinatal Depression: Prevalence, Screening Accuracy, and Screening Outcomes (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2005)

· Attempts to prevent postnatal depression (British Medical Journal, 2005)

· Can postpartum depression be prevented? (British Journal of General Practice, 2005)

· Recognizing and Treating the Physical Symptoms of Depression in Primary Care (Primary Care Companion, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2004)

· Diagnosis and management of post-partum disorders: a review (World Psychiatry, 2004)

· A qualitative study of the acceptability of routine screening of postnatal women using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (British Journal of General Practice, 2003)

· Postnatal depression and screening: too broad a sweep? (British Journal of General Practice, 2003)

· A cross-sectional study of early identification of postpartum depression: Implications for primary care providers from The Ontario Mother & Infant Survey (BMC Family Practice, 2002)

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