PERI_DEP: A dataset of mother's mental health in Pakistan.

ABSTRACT: Perinatal depression (PND) represents a multifaceted mental health issue that impacts women throughout the perinatal period. Existing datasets have a class imbalance issue, resulting in biased outcomes. In Pakistan, we developed a novel dataset called PERI_DEP. This dataset leverages the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), and socio-demographic questionnaires to gather information about mental health state and socioeconomic details of women participants in urban and rural areas. Our novel PERI_DEP dataset contains 14,008 samples, and women from Lahore and Gujranwala participated. To tackle the issue of class imbalance, we employed Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) oversampling technique on our data. A key insight derived from this dataset i

SUBMITTER: Zafar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12151247 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature