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Certified Nurse-Midwives' Beliefs About And Screening Practices For Postpartum Depression: A Descriptive Study, Sylva Berkley Zander
Certified Nurse-Midwives' Beliefs About And Screening Practices For Postpartum Depression: A Descriptive Study, Sylva Berkley Zander
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Purpose
Defined as moderate to severe symptoms of major depression lasting greater than two weeks after delivery, postpartum depression (PPD) is a crippling mood disorder with extreme loss and incongruity in emotion. Despite the tools available for screening postpartum depression, there is a consensus that PPD continues to be underdiagnosed. Recent surveys assessing pediatricians and family physicians indicate that while practitioners believe that PPD is serious, they may not feel confident that they can recognize PPD, are unfamiliar with screening tools and under-estimate its incidence in their practice. This study was conducted to determine the knowledge and screening practices of …