Detection of postnatal depression. Development of the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.

J. Cox; J. M. Holden; R. Sagovsky

DOI:10.1192/BJP.150.6.782

Corpus ID: 13841634

Detection of postnatal depression. Development of the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.

@article{Cox1987DetectionOP,
  title={Detection of postnatal depression. Development of the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.},
  author={J. Cox and J. M. Holden and R. Sagovsky},
  journal={The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science},
  year={1987},
  volume={150},
  pages={
          782-6
        }
}

J. Cox, J. M. Holden, R. Sagovsky

Published 1987

Psychology, Medicine

The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science

The development of a 10-item self-report scale (EPDS) to screen for Postnatal Depression in the community is described. After extensive pilot interviews a validation study was carried out on 84 mothers using the Research Diagnostic Criteria for depressive illness obtained from Goldberg's Standardised Psychiatric Interview. The EPDS was found to have satisfactory sensitivity and specificity, and was also sensitive to change in the severity of depression over time. The scale can be completed in… CONTINUE READING

View PDF

Share This Paper

8,339 Citations

Highly Influencial Citations

1,019

Background Citations

1,219

Methods Citations

2,440

Results Citations

Figures and Topics from this paper

Figures

figure 1

Paper Mentions

Interventional Clinical Trial

Scaling Up Maternal Mental Health Care by Increasing Access to Treatment (SUMMIT)

Our overarching goal of SUMMIT (Scaling Up Maternal Mental health care by Increasing access to Treatment) is to examine the scalability and patient-centered provision of brief… Expand

Conditions	Perinatal Depression
Intervention	Behavioral

Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada

January 2020 - December 2025

Interventional Clinical Trial

Characterizing the Neural Substrates of Irritability in Women: an Experimental Neuroendocrine Model

The proposed study involves experimentally manipulating reproductive hormones in nonpregnant, euthymic women to create a scaled down version of the changes that occur during pregnancy… Expand

Conditions	Depression, Depression, Postpartum, Perinatal Depression, (+1 more)
Intervention	Drug

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

August 2019 - July 2021

Interventional Clinical Trial

MAMA NO STRESS Project. The Effects of the "HAPPY MAMA" Intervention

This study evaluates the effects of a postpartum intervention in increasing the maternal well-being and self-efficacy of Italian women in the first one to six months after… Expand

Conditions	Depression, Postpartum, Mother-Infant Relations, Postpartum Sadness, (+2 more)
Intervention	Behavioral

University of Roma La Sapienza

November 2019 - September 2020

Interventional Clinical Trial

Preeclampsia Research on Vitamin D, Inflammation, & Depression

This study is designed to comprehensively investigate the anti-inflammatory role of vitamin D in reproductive aged women, and its association with preeclampsia and depression. Findings… Expand