Enhancing Participation in Depression Care in Outpatient Perinatal Care Settings: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine a wide range of study designs and outcomes to estimate the extent to which interventions in outpatient perinatal care settings are associated with an increase in the uptake of depression care.

Data sources

PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, ClinicalTrials.gov, and Scopus (EMBASE) were searched for studies published between 1999 and 2014 that evaluated mental health care use after screening for depression in perinatal care settings.

Methods of study selection

Inclusion criteria were: 1) English language; 2) pregnant and postpartum women who screened positive for depression; 3) exposure (validated depression screening in outpatient perinatal care setting); and, 4) outcome (mental health care use). Searches yielded 392 articles, 42 met criteria for full-text

SUBMITTER: Byatt N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4618720 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature