Screening for perinatal depression

Screening for perinatal depression / edited by Carol Henshaw and Sandra Elliott ; foreword by John Cox.

Screening for perinatal depression is now widely undertaken in the UK and Europe and is attracting increasing attention. This much-needed text provides guidance for health care professionals on the issues and controversies surrounding screening and on good practice in the use of screening tests. An...

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Other Authors: Henshaw, Carol, 1961-, Elliott, Sandra
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Philadelphia : J. Kingsley, 2005.
Subjects:
Postpartum depression > Diagnosis > Great Britain.
Medical screening > Great Britain.
Pregnant women > Mental health services > Great Britain.
Community Nursing.
Midwifery.
Medical Screening.
MEDICAL > Ophthalmology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Vision.
Medical screening
Postpartum depression > Diagnosis
Great Britain
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Table of Contents:
  • Screening: the role and recommendations of the UK National Screening Committee / Judy Shakespeare
  • Advantages and disadvantages of screening in clinical settings / Tessa Leverton
  • One bite of the cherry: a resource dilemma / Sheelah Seeley and Ann Girling
  • Two bites of the cherry: one solution? / Philip Boyce and Caroline Bell
  • The EPDS as a tool for identifying new onset depression within the first postpartum year / Kathleen S. Peindl
  • Screening in the context of integrated perinatal care / Bryanne Barnett [and others]
  • The status of postpartum depression screening in the United States / Lisa S. Segre and Michael W. O'Hara.
  • Screening in developing countries / Dominic T.S. Lee and Tony K.H. Chung
  • Screening where there is no screening scale / Abi Sobowale and Cheryll Adams
  • Screening for women at risk of serious mental illness / Margaret Oates
  • Screening and the role of the midwife / Mary Ross-Davie, Lucinda Green and Sandra Elliott
  • The postpartum depression screening scale (PDSS) / Cheryl T. Beck and Robert K. Gable
  • What is the EPDS measuring and how should we use it in research? / Josephine M. Green
  • Screening for perinatal depression: a denial of human reality? / Walter Barker
  • Acceptability of using the EPDS as a screening tool for postnatal depression / Jan Cubison and Jane Munro
  • What do black Caribbean women think about screening with the EPDS? / Dawn Edge.

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