Beyond Screening: Supporting the Mental Health of NICU Parents
Parents of infants in the NICU face high rates of depression, anxiety, stress, and trauma. Are we doing enough to identify their needs—and provide meaningful mental health support?
Resources for Parents with Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
List of resources for families with infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Moving Backwards? Why Doesn’t the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care Recommend Standardized Screening for Perinatal Depression?
This task force does not recommend universal, instrument-based screening for perinatal depression because we lack clear evidence that screening improves outcomes.
In NYC, A Home Visiting Program Addresses the Mental Health of New Mothers
In the United Kingdom (UK), health visitors (professionals who have at least three years of general nursing education and one year of specialist training) provide home visits to all women after birth as part [...]
In Brief: Several Programs from NPR Focus on Perinatal Depression
It is great to see so many well-written and researched reports on perinatal depression in the news these days. Here are a few great stories from NPR published over the last couple of months. [...]
Using Text Messages to Identify Women with Postpartum Depression
Twenty years ago, when we started screening for postpartum depression at our hospital, an obstetrics nurse gave the new mother a questionnaire at the mother’s six week visit. If everything went as planned, the mother [...]
Can Smartphone Apps Help to Screen for Perinatal Depression?
We’ve come a long way. Prior to the 1980s, most new mothers had never heard of postpartum depression. Over the last few decades we have made considerable progress in educating women about their risk for [...]
Suicidal Ideation in Pregnant Women Not Always Associated with Depression
It seems that there is considerable variation in the estimated prevalence of suicidal ideation in pregnant and postpartum women across studies. One element that may contribute to this variation is how we assess for this [...]
Perinatal Depression: How Do We Define High Risk? (Part 1)
In 2016, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended that all adults, including pregnant and postpartum women, should be screened for depression; the task force has extended those recommendations by stating that all pregnant [...]
Preventing postpartum depression: Start with women at greatest risk
January 30, 2019 from ObGynNews  The last decade has brought appropriate attention to the high prevalence of postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, with postpartum depression (PPD) constituting the most common complication in modern obstetrics. [...]