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Article: Screening for Postpartum Depression in Military Women with the Postpartum Depression Screening Scale
- Article from:
- Military Medicine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Nov 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Each year, ~ 16,000 women on active duty in the U.S. military experience the birth of a child. A descriptive, longitudinal, prospective design was used to gather data with the Postpartum Depression Screening Scale. Depression was measured after delivery but before hospital discharge (time 1), 2 weeks after delivery (time 2), and 6 to 8 weeks after delivery (time 3). Mothers were found to be experiencing the greatest severity of symptoms in the category of sleeping and eating disturbances. Almost one-half of the mothers in this study scored either significant postpartum depressive symptoms or positive screening for postpartum depression after delivery. This number remained virtually ...