Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale

Let's tell everyone what

the EDPS is, just for sake of, right? It's the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Screen.

Postnatal Depression Scale.

Thank you.

Yep.

Now, there's something that's been heavily talked about throughout this trial.

It is called the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, otherwise known as EPDS.

It's basically a questionnaire that a patient fills out on their own and it's used to screen for prenatal and postpartum depression.

They answer the question.

So yes, days later, on the recommendation of her mother-in-law, Lyndsey went to see Julie Paul, a psychiatric nurse practitioner at South Shore Health's Perinatal Behavioral Health Program.

Nurse Paul gave Lyndsey the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression test, and she scored a staggering 23 out of 30, which points to severe depression.

At this time, Lyndsey was prescribed Prozac, another antidepressant and SSRI.

But again, it just made Lyndsey even worse.

Everybody should be screening.

You often see the PQ1 or PQ5, or you can even do a postpartum depression screening, Edinburgh postpartum depression screening, but having a really good, reliable tool to screen for depression and anxiety and screening for intimate partner violence.

What recommendations? I mean, you've kind of talked about this throughout, but if you were to bring some things together, what recommendations do you have for midwives and other clinicians providing preconception care or who listened to your interview today and want to improve what they're doing?

Normalize preconception care.

For the next couple of weeks, family texts describe sleep problems, fear, hopelessness, medication reactions, repeated attempts to obtain care.

Her Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale was reported as twenty-three and later seventeen.

Those are both clinically significant.

Again, the way that you typically diagnose psychiatric conditions is an actual checklist, and if you hit a certain number on the checklist, then you are considered to have the condition.

So what do you think about this?

Well, I am a retired pediatric nurse for several decades, and there is a thing called an Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale that we, it's a questionnaire of 10 questions that we ask the mother for up to about six months.

when they bring their baby in, their infant in, for their well visits.

And even when they come in for sick visits, sometimes if we see that the parent may be not as, you know, responding or interjecting with the child as normal, we can ask these questions.