A month after Melanie Blocker-Stokes gave birth, she stopped eating and sleeping. She had convinced herself that she was a terrible mother, and she was paranoid that the neighbors thought so too. Over ...

Implementing the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in the pediatric primary care setting can improve rates of early detection for postpartum depression. Screening new mothers for postpartum ...

Medicaid reimbursement was associated with more billed postpartum depression (PPD) screens and higher probability of the mother being diagnosed and treated. Medicaid-insured mothers have higher rates ...

Editor’s Note: This article was revised in May 2024 to reflect newly available peripartum mental health data and the 2023 ACOG clinical practice guideline pertaining to screening for mental health ...

February 18, 2010 — Depression is prevalent in low-income, urban, postpartum mothers and can be accurately identified using depression screening tools, according to the results of a study reported ...

Screening for postpartum depression is a valuable safeguard. It is not, however, all we have to do. There is little debate that our most reliable and valid screening tool for postpartum depression, ...

The prevalence of women who had a positive screen for PPD at 6 weeks postpartum was 16% in our study. This rate is in agreement with many prevalence studies [7] and confirms that one in six new ...

Medicaid reimbursement for postpartum depression (PPD) screening at well-child visits may increase detection and treatment of PPD in the first year postpartum, a cohort study in Colorado found.