BackgroundIt is unclear whether the causative factors of non-psychotic postnatal depression
are the same as those of depression at other times. MethodThe course and recurrence of�…

Background: Much has been written about postnatal depression as a clinical condition.
There is some evidence to suggest that a substantial proportion of women who give birth�…

In the first study to systematically examine postnatal depression in fathers, we examined
depression in 200 postnatal couples, using a two-stage design. The prevalence of�…

In a two-stage screening procedure using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and
Goldberg's Standardised Psychiatric Interview, 232 women six months after delivery were�…

Antenatal depression is a known risk factor for postnatal depression; both are common
disorders associated with negative impacts on child development. Few studies have�…

A ten-item screening questionnaire was constructed from previous reports on risk factors for
postnatal depression, and its ability to predict antenatally the development of postnatal�…

The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of clinically significant depression
occurring between 7 and 4 months postpartum and to investigate whether somatic�…

The aims of the study were to describe course of depression in both mothers and fathers
from the third trimester of pregnancy through 6 months postpartum and to examine the�…

The main objectives of this study were (i) to find out to what extent postnatal depression
(PND) in mothers was recognized at Well Baby Clinics (WBCs) in Stockholm,(ii) to study the�…

BackgroundThis paper reports further data from the Stoke study of postnatal depression and
examines whether psychosocial characteristics and symptom profiles differ between�…