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Perinatal depression screening in Australia: A position paper
- Source :
- Nursing & Health Sciences. 23:279-287
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2020.
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Abstract
- Perinatal depression can have enduring adverse effects on women and their children and families, incurring substantial ongoing economic and personal costs. A significant proportion of the cost of perinatal depression relates to adverse impacts on the child, most likely mediated through impairment to the mother-infant relationship. In recognition of this problem, Australia has invested in routine perinatal depression screening. Our previous research produced convergent findings suggesting that expected benefits for children have not yet been realised through perinatal depression screening. We question the potential of including a measure of personality in current perinatal depression screening for identifying maternal mental health problems and suboptimal mother-infant relationships. This paper reviews our previous research findings within the broader context of perinatal depression screening. We propose a position, that perinatal depression screening in Australia should be redesigned to more precisely detect vulnerable mother-infant relationships, parenting, maternal mental health, and infant psychosocial and psychological development. Practice change to appropriately target antenatal interventions may more efficiently improve both maternal and child outcomes, thereby contributing to greater efficiency and cost savings for the health system.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject
Psychological intervention
Mothers
Context (language use)
Depression, Postpartum
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Pregnancy
Humans
Mass Screening
Medicine
Personality
030212 general & internal medicine
Child
Psychiatry
General Nursing
Depression (differential diagnoses)
media_common
Parenting
030504 nursing
Depression
business.industry
Australia
Infant
General Medicine
Mental health
Mother-Child Relations
Perinatal Care
Position paper
Female
0305 other medical science
business
Psychosocial
Perinatal Depression
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14422018 and 14410745
- Volume :
- 23
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nursing & Health Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d868fe58d0748a5c8abd0ebadbcf58d8