More knowledge is needed on the effect of various models for follow-up of postnatal depression in Norway BACKGROUND Screening for postnatal depression using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), in combination with counselling sessions with a public health nurse (the Edinburgh method), has been introduced at many child health centres in Norway. In this article we provide a summary of...

BACKGROUND Antenatal depression is associated with adverse maternal and infant well-being. However, compared to postpartum depression, it has been less frequently explored globally or in Jamaica. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of, and factors associated with, antenatal depressive symptoms among Jamaican women in order to inform policy and build interventions that could improve the...

Although the association between social support and postpartum depression has been previously investigated, its causal relationship remains unclear. Therefore, we examined prospectively whether social support during pregnancy affected postpartum depression. Social support and depressive symptoms were assessed by Japanese version of Social Support Questionnaire (J-SSQ) and Edinburgh Postnatal De...

For two watersheds in the northern Midwest United States, we show that landscape depressions have a significant impact on watershed hydrology and sediment yields and that the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) has appropriate features to simulate these depressions. In our SWAT models of the Willow River in Wisconsin and the Sunrise River in Minnesota, we used Pond and Wetland features to cap...

BACKGROUND This study examined predictors of parenting self-efficacy (PSE) in a sample of first-time mothers during the first year after childbirth and evaluated the effect of a brief, intensive, mother-infant residential intervention on PSE and infant behaviour. METHODS 83 primiparous women with infants aged 0-12 months admitted to a residential parent-infant program participated in a struct...

PURPOSE Our objectives were to identify the depression and the distressing symptoms in younger and elderly advanced cancer patients. METHODS : The instruments that have been used were the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) for younger patients, the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) for geriatric patients and the M. D. Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI) for the severity and impact of cancer-relate...

objective: the objective of this study was to determine the ability of non-psychiatric (medical and surgical residents) residents on inpatient units to recognize patients with clinically significant depression and anxiety among a cohort admitted to the dr. shariati hospital in tehran. method: patients within 72 hours of admission underwent screening with the hospital anxiety and depression scal...

conclusions the initial assumption of a relationship between vitamin d and high prevalence of seasonal affective disorder in winter was based on the high prevalence of depression on high latitudes. although some studies have shown an association between depression and vitamin d deficiency, it still cannot be indisputably concluded that augmenting the levels of vitamin d alone alleviate depressi...

objective: in iran, psychological aspect of hiv infection is poorly understood. the purposes of this study were to evaluate sexual dysfunction, depression rate and health-related quality of life and evaluate the association between sexual dysfunction, depression and quality of life in a group of hiv+ subjects in shiraz, iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 278 male hiv-positive patient...

background: the relationship of inflammatory cytokines with anxiety and depression has been reported, but their role in diabetic patients has not been fully elucidated. objective: we examined whether an association between prevalence of anxiety and depression in omani type-2 diabetic patients (n=30) and the levels of inflammatory markers such as il-1β, tnf-α, ifn-γ and c-reactive protein (crp) ...