Comparison of mental health screening tools for detecting antenatal depression and anxiety disorders in South African women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antenatal depression and anxiety disorders are highly prevalent in low and middle-income countries. Screening of pregnant women in primary care antenatal settings provides an opportunity for entry to care, but data are needed on the performance of different screening tools. We compared five widely-used questionnaires in a sample of pregnant women in urban South Africa.

Method

Pregnant women attending a primary care antenatal clinic were administered five tools by trained research assistants: the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), the Kessler Psychological Distress scale (K10) and a shortened 6-item version (K6), the Whooley questions and the two-item Generalised Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-2). Following this, a r

SUBMITTER: van Heyningen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5906008 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature