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Validation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale for men, and comparison of item endorsement with their partners
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The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) has been validated and used extensively in screening for depression in new mothers, both in English speaking and non-English speaking communities as discussed by the authors.About:
This article is published in Journal of Affective Disorders.The article was published on 2001-05-01. It has received 459 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale & Postpartum depression.read more
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Prenatal and Postpartum Depression in Fathers and Its Association With Maternal Depression: A Meta-analysis
TL;DR: Prenatal and postpartum depression was evident in about 10% of men in the reviewed studies and was relatively higher in the 3- to 6-month post partum period, and paternal depression showed a moderate positive correlation with maternal depression.
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Paternal depression in the postnatal period and child development: a prospective population study
TL;DR: The findings indicate that paternal depression has a specific and persisting detrimental effect on their children's early behavioural and emotional development.
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Paternal postpartum depression, its relationship to maternal postpartum depression, and implications for family health
TL;DR: Consideration of postpartum depression in fathers as well as mothers, and consideration of co-occurrence of depression in couples, is an important next step in research and practice involving childbearing families.
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Variability in use of cut-off scores and formats on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale: implications for clinical and research practice.
TL;DR: The increasing use in the literature of unvalidated cut-off scores on the Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS/EPDS), as well as different wording and formatting in the scale, is highlighted to highlight possible reasons for these ‘errors’.
Diagnosing postpartum depression in mothers and fathers : Whatever happened to anxiety?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used DSM-IV criteria to determine the presence since birth of depression (major or minor), panic disorder, acute adjustment disorder with anxiety (meeting the criteria for generalised anxiety disorder except for the duration criterion), and phobia.
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The CES-D Scale: A Self-Report Depression Scale for Research in the General Population
TL;DR: The CES-D scale as discussed by the authors is a short self-report scale designed to measure depressive symptomatology in the general population, which has been used in household interview surveys and in psychiatric settings.
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The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale.
A. S. Zigmond,R. P. Snaith +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the introduction of the scales into general hospital practice would facilitate the large task of detection and management of emotional disorder in patients under investigation and treatment in medical and surgical departments.
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An inventory for measuring depression
TL;DR: The difficulties inherent in obtaining consistent and adequate diagnoses for the purposes of research and therapy have been pointed out and a wide variety of psychiatric rating scales have been developed.
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Detection of postnatal depression. Development of the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.
John Cox,Jeni Holden,R. Sagovsky +2 more
TL;DR: The development of a 10-item self-report scale (EPDS) to screen for Postnatal Depression in the community was found to have satisfactory sensitivity and specficity, and was also sensitive to change in the severity of depression over time.
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Research diagnostic criteria: Rationale and reliability.
TL;DR: The development and initial reliability studies of a set of specific diagnostic criteria for a selected group of functional psychiatric disorders, the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC), indicate high reliability for diagnostic judgments made using these criteria.
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