Postpartum depression: a developed and validated model predicting individual risk in new mothers.

ABSTRACT: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a serious condition associated with potentially tragic outcomes, and in an ideal world PPDs should be prevented. Risk prediction models have been developed in psychiatry estimating an individual's probability of developing a specific condition, and recently a few models have also emerged within the field of PPD research, although none are implemented in clinical care. For the present study we aimed to develop and validate a prediction model to assess individualized risk of PPD and provide a tentative template for individualized risk calculation offering opportunities for additional external validation of this tool. Danish population registers served as our data sources and PPD was defined as recorded contact to a psychiatric treatment facility (ICD-10 code DF

SUBMITTER: Munk-Olsen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9525696 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature