TABLE 2.

Frequency of Hospital-Based Perinatal Nurses Teaching New Mothers About Postpartum Depression, by Work Area*

	Always	Most of the Time	Occasionally	Rarely	Never
Nurses in labor and delivery unit (n = 17)	2	0	0	6	9
Nurses in mother/baby unit (n = 23)	1	8	6	5	3

Note. *Three of the 43 study participants did not respond. Responses under each of the categories of “always,” “most of the time,” and “occasionally” indicate 43% (17/40) of the perinatal nurses taught new mothers about postpartum depression; 58% (23/40) of the perinatal nurses “rarely” or “never” taught new mothers about postpartum depression.