Screening for perinatal depression is now widely undertaken in the UK and Europe and is attracting increasing attention. This much-needed text provides guidance for health care professionals on the issues and controversies surrounding screening and on good practice in the use of screening tests. An international author team with backgrounds in psychiatry, psychology, medicine and nursing has been brought together to discuss the available screening methods, their advantages and drawbacks. The authors investigate women's perceptions of the accessibility and usefulness of screening and of the roles of professionals (e.g. primary care staff and health visitors), and also look at ethnic minority women's experiences of health services. The role of the UK National Screening Committee is explored, along with the problems faced when implementing screening programmes in developing countries.This comprehensive and practical book will enable mental health professionals, social workers and health visitors to provide sensitive and informed services to women at risk of perinatal depression.
Introduction - Carol Henshaw; 1. Screening, the role and recommendations of the UK National Screening Committee - Judy Shakespeare, GP, Oxford, UK; 2. Advantages and disadvantages of screening in clinical settings - Tessa Leverton, Imperial College School of Medicine; 3. One bite of the cherry: a resource dilemma - Sheelah Seeley and Ann Girling; 4. Two bites of the cherry: one solution? - Philip Boyce, University of Sydney, Australia, and Caroline Bell; 5. The EPDS as a tool for identifying new onset depression within the first postpartum year - Kathleen Peindl, Epidemiologist, Louisville, USA; 6. Screening in the context of integrated perinatal care - Bryanne Barnett, University of New South Wales, Australia, Patricia Glossop, Stephen Matthey and Helen Stewart; 7. The status of postpartum depression screening in the United States - Lisa Segre and Mike O'Hara, University of Iowa, USA; 8. Screening in developing countries - Dominic Lee and Tony Chung, Chinese University of Hong Kong; 9. Screening where there is no screening scale - Abi Sobowale and Cheryll Adams; 10. Screening for women at risk of severe mental illness - Margaret Oates, University of Nottingham, UK; 11. Screening and the role of the midwife - Mary Davie, Lucinda Green and Sandra Elliott; 12. The Postpartum Depression Screening Scale - Cheryl Beck, University of Connecticut, USA; 13. What is the EPDS measuring and how should we use it in research? - Josephine Green, University of Leeds, UK; 14; Screening for perinatal depression: a denial of human reality - Walter Barker, Early Childhood Development Centre, Bristol, UK; 15. Acceptability of using the EPDS as a screening tool for postnatal depression - Jan Cubison, Maternal Mental Health Service, Sheffield, UK and Jane Munro; 16. What do black Caribbean women think about screening with the EPDS? - Dawn Edge, University of Manchester, UK; Conclusions - Sandra Elliott; Appendix 1; The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; Appendix 2; References to available translations and validation studies of Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, Postpartum Depression Screening Scale and other instruments used during pregnancy and postpartum; References; Index.
