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An estimated 1 in 5 women struggle with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders after birth. But the future of postpartum mental health care is getting brighter.
Postpartum Progress is a blog focused on being a community of mothers talking openly about postpartum depression and other mental health conditions associated. [153] Story-telling and online communities reduce the stigma around PPD and promote peer-based care.
The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is a 10-item questionnaire that was developed to identify women who have postpartum depression. [1] Items of the scale correspond to various clinical depression symptoms, such as guilt feeling, sleep disturbance, low energy, anhedonia, and suicidal ideation. Overall assessment is done by total ...
Postpartum mental health care still out of reach for many. Nikki Battiste, Devyn Rafols-Nunez. October 17, 2024 at 5:08 PM. For Katherine Schiefer, whose son Owen was born five months ago ...
Evolutionary approaches to postpartum depression offer frameworks that can be informative, even given these variations in rates of postpartum depression. Because evolutionary medicine explores causality and treatment from the perspective of universal human biology and psychology, these approaches may bring to light new perspectives on causes ...
A 2023 study published in Frontiers in Psychology utilized a self-assessment for new mothers who had experienced birth trauma. The study authors found that it allowed the women “to access their ...
Perinatal mental health screenings are important in detecting and diagnosing antenatal and postpartum depression early. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is one of the many maternal health organizations that strongly encourage universal screening for expectant and postpartum women for depression as part of routine ...
Writer Ayana Lage opens up about being diagnosed with postpartum psychosis, a mental health condition affecting approximately 1-2 of every 1,000 mothers.