Postpartum Depression Screening at Well-Child Visits: Validity of a 2-Question Screen and the PHQ-9
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in The Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 7 (1) , 63-70
Abstract
PURPOSE Postpartum depression affects up to 22% of women who have recently given birth. Most mothers are not screened for this condition, and an ideal screening tool has not been identified. This study investigated (1) the validity of a 2-question screen and the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) for identifying postpartum depression and (2) the feasibility of screening for postpartum depression during well-child visits.Keywords
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