From the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Newsletter: A study in the June 2009 edition of the journal Pediatrics examines the feasibility of screening for maternal depression as a standard part of well-child care, and looks at the prevalence and incidence of maternal depression at well-child visits during the first six months of life. Providers in an adolescent-oriented maternity program were cued electronically to screen the mothers for postpartum depression when they opened electronic medical records of 0 to 6-month-old infants. The study found that electronic cueing improved providers' compliance with screening for depression. In addition, screening two months after delivery detects most mothers who become depressed during the first six months postpartum.
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Katherine Stone is the creator of Postpartum Progress. She is a survivor of postpartum anxiety & OCD. Follow her on Twitter at @postpartumprog or on Instagram at @katherine_stone.
Meet Katherine
Katherine Stone is the creator of Postpartum Progress. She is a survivor of postpartum anxiety & OCD. Follow her on Twitter at @postpartumprog or on Instagram at @katherine_stone.