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Article: Black Caribbean women in U.K. less likely to get postnatal depression therapy.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- November 2, 2004
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2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Black Caribbean women in Manchester, England, are less likely to receive treatment for postnatal depression than white British women there.
D. Edge at the University of Salford, U.K., and colleagues, "[described] findings from a mixed-method, longitudinal cohort study into perinatal depression among black Caribbean women. Using symptom scores from the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), 101 black Caribbean and 200 white British women accessing maternity services in Manchester, U.K., were screened for depressive symptoms in the last trimester of pregnancy and 6 weeks following delivery."
"The purpose of ...