After giving birth, new mothers typically return for a follow-up appointment six to eight weeks later. But if postpartum depression symptoms emerge, “that can be a really long time for someone who is ...
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 ...
Nurse education is the key to successfully screening women for postpartum depression, which affects some 15% of mothers, according to a new quality improvement (QI) study from Cedars-Sinai. Training ...
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 ...
BATON ROUGE, La. — On Black Maternal Health Advocacy Day Wednesday, the House voted 101-0 to pass a bill to provide for perinatal mood disorder screening, specifically for postpartum depression and ...
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 ...
Share on Pinterest New research shows that antidepressants improve symptoms of postpartum and postnatal depression in new mothers. Cavan Images/Getty Images A new study finds a type of antidepressant ...