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. 2022 May 10;17(2):10–21. doi: 10.51866/rv1289

Table 1. Flow diagram of the search strategy for assessment tools used for postnatal mental illness.

POSTNATAL BLUES

2

INSTRUMENT

AUTHOR (YEAR)

COUNTRY

LANGUAGE

RELIABILITY

VALUE

CRITERIA

NO. OF ARTICLES

Daily Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ)

Buttner et al. (2012)

USA

English

Cronbach’s alpha (α)

0.88-0.94

Good—Excellent

1

Maternity Blues Scale (MBS)

Pop et al. (2015)

The Netherlands

Dutch

(α)

0.76-0.87

Adequate-Good

1

POSTNATAL STRESS

11

INSTRUMENT

AUTHOR (YEAR)

COUNTRY

LANGUAGE

RELIABILITY

VALUE

CRITERIA

NO. OF ARTICLES

Acculturative Stress Index

Dennis et al. (2018)

Canada

Not mentioned

(α)

0.93

Excellent

1

Childcare Stress Inventory

Nurbaeti et al. (2019)

Indonesia

Indonesian

(α)

0.74

Adequate

1

Parenting Stress Index (PSI) - Short Form

Gray et al. (2012)

Australia

English

(α)

0.91

Excellent

1

German Parental Stress Questionnaire (GPSQ) - Modified PSI

Anding et al. (2016)

Germany

German

(α)

0.85

Good

2

Swedish Parental Stress Questionnaire (SPSQ) - Modified PSI

Andersson & Hildingsson (2016)

Sweden

Swedish

(α)

0.81

Good

2

Hung Postpartum Stress Scale

Ugurlu et al. (2012)

Turkey

Turkish

(α)

0.93

Excellent

2

Deltsidou et al. (2018)

Greece

Greek

(α)

0.95

Excellent

Life Event Questionnaire - Modified

Nurbaeti et al. (2019)

Indonesia

Indonesian

(α)

0.83

Good

1

Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)

Razurel et al. (2013)

Switzerland

French

(α)

0.86

Good

2

Benediktsson et al. (2017)

Canada

English

(α)

0.88-0.89

Good

Postnatal Perceived Stress Inventory

Razurel et al. (2013)

Switzerland

French

(α)

0.82

Good

1

POSTNATAL ANXIETY

12

INSTRUMENT

AUTHOR (YEAR)

COUNTRY

LANGUAGE

RELIABILITY

VALUE

CRITERIA

NO. OF ARTICLES

Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)

Bina & Harrington (2017)

Israel

Hebrew

(α)

0.60

Poor

2

Martin & Redshaw (2018)

England

English

(α)

0.74-0.78

Adequate

Generalised Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD 7)

Bobevski et al. (2015)

USA

English

(α)

0.85

Good

1

Generalised Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire IV

Pierson et al. (2017)

England

English

(α)

0.82-0.87

Good

1

Hopkins Symptoms Checklist-90-Revised

Nieto et al. (2019)

Mexico

Not mentioned

(α)

0.82

Good

1

Postpartum Specific Anxiety Scale (PSAS)

Fallon et al. (2016)

UK

English

(a) Test-Retest

0.96

0.88

Excellent

1

State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

Razurel et al. (2013)

Switzerland

French

(α)

0.95

Excellent

5

Bayrampour et al. (2014)

Canada

English

(α)

0.84-0.93

Good—Excellent

Benediktsson et al. (2017)

Canada

English

(α)

0.93

Excellent

Matthies et al. (2017)

Germany

German

(α)

0.91

Excellent

Dennis et al. (2018)

Canada

Not mentioned

(α)

0.92

Excellent

Zung Anxiety Scale

Tran et al. (2011)

Vietnam

Vietnamese

(α)

0.76

Adequate

1

POSTNATAL DEPRESSION

52

INSTRUMENT

AUTHOR (YEAR)

COUNTRY

LANGUAGE

RELIABILITY

VALUE

CRITERIA

NO. OF ARTICLES

Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D)

Deltsidou et al. (2018)

Greece

Greek

(α)

0.91

Excellent

1

Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)

Chibanda et al. (2010)

Africa

Shona

(α)

0.87

Good

19

Lau et al. (2010)

China

Chinese

(a) Test-Retest

0.78

0.90

Adequate

Excellent

Tesfaye et al. (2010)

Ethiopia

Amharic

(α)

0.71

Adequate

Banti et al. (2011)

Italy

Italian

(α)

0.75

Adequate

Flynn et al. (2011)

USA

English

(α)

0.84

Good

Leahy-Warren et al. (2011)

Ireland

English

(α)

0.88

Good

Tran et al. (2011)

Vietnam

Vietnamese

(α)

0.75

Adequate

Gray et al. (2011)

Australia

English

(α)

0.87

Good

Kuo et al. (2012)

Taiwan

Chinese

(α)

0.82

Good

Razurel et al. (2013)

Switzerland

French

(α)

0.72

Adequate

Bayrampour et al. (2014)

Canada

English

(α)

0.87

Good

Gaillard et al. (2014)

France

French

(α)

0.85

Good

Clout & Brown (2015)

Australia

English

(α)

0.89

Good

Figueiredo et al. (2015)

Brazil

Portuguese

(α)

0.86

Good

Giallo et al. (2015)

Australia

English

(α)

0.89

Good

Kernot et al. (2015)

Australia

English

Test-Retest

0.92

Excellent

Odalovic et al. (2015)

Serbia

Serbian

(α)

0.83

Good

Anding et al. (2016)

Germany

German

(α)

0.85

Good

Iwata et al. (2016)

Japan

Japanese

(α)

0.81-0.82

Good

Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)

Bina & Harrington (2017)

Israel

Hebrew

(α)

0.71

Adequate

18

Gollan et al. (2017)

USA

English

(α)

0.87

Good

Ing et al. (2017)

Thailand

Burmese

(α)

0.82

Good

Ing et al. (2017)

Thailand

Karen

(α)

0.59

Poor

Kozinszkv et al. (2017)

Hungary

Hungarian

(α)

0.82

Good

Matthies et al. (2017)

Germany

German

(α)

0.86

Good

Pierson et al. (2017)

England

English

(α)

0.87-0.91

Good—Excellent

Bhusal & Bhandari (2018)

Nepal

Nepalese

(α)

0.74

Adequate

Delvari et al. (2018)

Iran

Iran

(α)

0.77

Adequate

Dennis et al. (2017)

Canada

English

(α)

0.78

Adequate

Dennis et al. (2017)

UK

English

(α)

0.86

Good

Green et al. (2018)

Kenya

Kiswahili

(α)

0.78

Adequate

Martin & Redshaw (2018)

England

English

(α)

0.80-0.82

Good

Smith­Nielsen et al. (2018)

Denmark

Danish

(α)

0.82

Good

Nurbaeti et al. (2019)

Indonesia

Indonesian

(α)

0.80

Good

Nursazila Asikin et al. (2019)

Malaysia

Malay

(α)

0.62-0.78

Poor—Adequate

Shwartz et al. (2019)

Israel

Arabic/Hebrew

(α)

0.82

Good

Coffman et al. (2020)

USA

English

(α)

0.89

Good

Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ 9)

Flynn et al. (2011)

USA

English

(α)

0.85

Good

5

Bobevski et al. (2015)

USA

English

(α)

0.73

Adequate

Green et al. (2018)

Kenya

Kiswahili

(α)

0.81

Good

Nieto et al. (2019)

Mexico

Not mentioned

(α)

0.85

Good

Coffman et al. (2020)

USA

English

(α)

0.80

Good

Perinatal Depression Screening (PDEPS)

Green et al. (2018)

Kenya

Kiswahili

(α)

0.77

Adequate

1

Postpartum Depression Screening Scale (PDSS)

Pereira et al. (2010)

Portugal

Portuguese

(α)

0.96

Excellent

8

Zubran et al. (2010)

Brazil

Portuguese

(α)

0.78

Good

Li et al. (2011)

China

Chinese

(α)

0.96

Excellent

Lara et al. (2013)

Mexico

Spanish

(α)

0.96

Excellent

Lara et al. (2013)

Mexico

Spanish

(α)

0.77-0.80

Adequate-Good

Pereira et al. (2013)

Portugal

Portuguese

(α)

0.85

Good

Pereira et al. (2013)

Portugal

Portuguese

(α)

0.92

Excellent

Blucker et al. (2014)

USA

English

(α)

0.95

Excellent

POSTNATAL DEPRESSION

5

INSTRUMENT

AUTHOR (YEAR)

COUNTRY

LANGUAGE

RELIABILITY

VALUE

CRITERIA

NO. OF ARTICLES

Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)

Cunningham et al. (2014)

Australia

English

(α)

0.87

Good

1

 

Torreki et al. (2014)

Hungary

Hungarian

(α)

0.75

Adequate

1

 

Bina & Harrington (2017)

Israel

Hebrew

(α)

0.76

Adequate

1

 

Martin & Redshaw (2018)

England

English

(α)

0.84-0.85

Good

1

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)

Grylka-Baeschlin et al. (2015)

Germany

German

(α)

A: 0.75-0.76

D: 0.65-0.75

Adequate

Poor-Adequate

1

POSTNATAL DEPRESSION

4

INSTRUMENT

AUTHOR (YEAR)

COUNTRY

LANGUAGE

RELIABILITY

VALUE

CRITERIA

NO. OF ARTICLES

Launay Slade Hallucination Scale

Mannion & Slade (2014)

UK

English

(α)

0.72

Adequate

2

Holt et al. (2018)

UK

English

(α)

0.66

Poor

Peters Delusion Inventory

Mannion & Slade (2014)

UK

English

(α)

0.73

Adequate

2

Holt et al. (2018)

UK

English

(α)

0.73

Adequate

POSTNATAL DEPRESSION

10

INSTRUMENT

AUTHOR (YEAR)

COUNTRY

LANGUAGE

RELIABILITY

VALUE

CRITERIA

NO. OF ARTICLES

Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS 21)

Clout & Brown (2015)

Australia

English

(α)

D: 0.86

A: 0.79

S: 0.76

D: Good

A: Adequate

S: Adequate

4

Meena et al. (2016)

India

Not mentioned

(α)

D: 0.91

A: 0.80

S: 0.90

D: Excellent

A: Good

S: Excellent

Deltsidou et al. (2018)

Greece

Greek

(α)

D: 0.91

A: 0.77

S: 0.82

D: Excellent

A: Adequate

S: Good

Shokuhi et al. (2020)

Iran

Persian

(α)

D: 0.93

A: 0.90

S: 0.91

D: Excellent

A: Excellent

S: Excellent

General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 12)

Tran et al. (2011)

Vietnam

Vietnamese

(α)

0.64

Poor

3

Spiteri et al. (2013)

UK

Maltese

(a) Test-Retest

0.92

0.80

Excellent

Good

Ngai & Ngu (2015)

Hong Kong

Chinese

(α)

0.74-0.83

Adequate-Good

Kessler

Tesfaye et al. (2010)

Ethiopia

Amharic

(α)

0.90

Excellent

2

Tesfaye et al. (2010)

Ethiopia

Amharic

(α)

0.86

Good

Postpartum Distress Measure Scale (PDMS)

Shokuhi et al. (2020)

Iran

Persian

(α)

0.75

Adequate

1