Validation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) in a sample of mothers from the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study Validação da Escala de Depressão Pós-natal de Edinburgo (EPDS) em uma amostra de mães da Coorte de Nascimento de Pelotas, 2004

• Autors principals: Iná S. Santos (Autor), Alicia Matijasevich (Autor), Beatriz Franck Tavares (Autor), Aluísio J. D. Barros (Autor), Iara Picinini Botelho (Autor), Catherine Lapolli (Autor), Pedro Vieira da Silva Magalhães (Autor), Ana Paula Pereira Neto Barbosa (Autor), Fernando C. Barros (Autor)
• Format: Llibre
• Publicat: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2007-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Matèries: article
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) for screening and diagnosis of postpartum depression. Three months after delivery, EPDS was administered to 378 mothers from the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Up to 15 days later...