OBJECTIVES To provide UK normative data for the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) and test its convergent, discriminant and construct validity. DESIGN Cross-sectional, correlational and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). METHODS The DASS was administered to a non-clinical sample, broadly representative of the general adult UK population (N = 1,771) in terms of demographic variable...

this study investigates the relationship between meaningfulness of life and hope, happiness, depression and life satisfaction. participants consist of 382 women who work in schools and other educational organizations in shiraz. the techniques used include life regard index (lri), depression- happiness scale (dhs), satisfaction with life scale (swls), and adults dispositional hope scale (adhs). ...

In region-based image segmentation, two models dominate the field: the Mumford-Shah functional and statistical approaches based on Bayesian inference. Whereas the latter allow for numerous ways to describe the statistics of intensities in regions, the first includes spatially smooth approximations. In this paper, we show that the piecewise smooth Mumford-Shah functional is a first order approxi...

BACKGROUND One in ten women suffers from postnatal depression (PND) and their children have elevated rates of psychopathology. We compared caseness of PND using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), the most commonly used research tool for the detection of PND, and the Clinical Interview Schedule (CIS) in terms of their relative abilities to identify infants at risk of psychopatholog...

OBJECTIVES AND HYPOTHESIS To examine the influence of gender of the baby on exclusive breastfeeding and incidence of postnatal depression (PND). We hypothesise that in a society with a male gender bias there may be more PND and less exclusive breastfeeding of the girl child. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING The study was conducted in an urban, tertiary hospital in Delhi. PARTICIPANTS Mot...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the impact of social support on postnatal depression and health-related quality of life. DESIGN prospective cohort study. Data were collected at baseline and at six weeks post discharge using a postal survey. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS between August and December 2008, 320 women from a large tertiary hospital were recruited following the birth of their infant. MEASUREM...

BACKGROUND Insomnia and depression are strongly interrelated. This study aimed to describe changes in sleep across childbirth, and to evaluate whether insomnia in pregnancy is a predictor of postpartum depression. METHODS A longitudinal, population-based study was conducted among perinatal women giving birth at Akershus University Hospital, Norway. Women received questionnaires in weeks 17 an...

The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire (PBQ) in Japanese mothers. Additionally, we investigated the association between postpartum bonding and postnatal depression. The participants of this study were 1786 Japanese mothers, recruited during their infants’ 3 months check-ups at a public health center. The mothers completed the PBQ...

BACKGROUND Few psychometric studies of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) scale have been performed with clinical samples of elderly individuals. METHODS The participants were 484 elderly (65-101 years, 241 men) patients in an acute medical unit. The HADS, the Montgomery-Aasberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) and questionnaires assessing quality of life, functional impairment, ...