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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 3.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2008 Apr;47(4):390–398. doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e31816429c2

Table 1.

Depression scores and percentage depressed across the prenatal and postnatal periods (using EPDS).

Time point Depression score
(range 0-30)
Median (IQR)1
Depression - percent
scoring >12 (95% C.I.)1
Depression - percent
scoring >12 (95% C.I.)2
18 weeks
prenatal
3.0 (1.0, 6.0) 2.88 (2.41, 3.35) 3.88 (3.52, 4.24)
8 weeks
postnatal
2.5 (1.0, 5.0) 2.55 (2.10, 3.00) 3.64 (3.29, 3.99)
8 months
postnatal
2.0 (0.0, 5.0) 2.32 (1.89, 2.75) 3.44 (3.10, 3.78)
21 months
postnatal
3.0 (0.0, 6.0) 3.05 (2.56, 3.54) 3.87 (3.51, 4.23)
1

Sample with data at all 4 time points (n=4,792)

2

Prevalence using imputed data for those with data on at least one time point (n=10,975)