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. 2007 Mar;99(3):226–231.

Healthy Start screens for depression among urban pregnant, postpartum and interconceptional women.

Alfred R Harrington 1, Claudia C Greene-Harrington 1
PMCID: PMC2569624  PMID: 17393946

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To examine perinatal depression in north and northeast Omaha, NE. METHODS: The records of a sample of 119 randomly selected clients from Omaha Healthy Start (OHS) were reviewed. Three screening instruments were employed to identify women with depression: they were asked whether they were depressed (DQ); they received the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale (EPDS) and/or the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). RESULTS: The number of women with depressive symptoms identified by each technique varied from: DQ (16.8%), EPDS (16%) and BDI (7.6%). The three methods identified three subpopulations of women with different maternal and child health risk profiles reflected by their responses on an OHS-developed Maternal and Child Health Risk Assessment Tool. CONCLUSION: In combination, these simple techniques identified depressed women with different risk profiles who would have been missed using a single approach exclusively.

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