Digging over that old ground: An Australian perspective of women's experience of psychosocial assessment and depression screening in pregnancy and following birth

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rollans, Mellanie ^a   Schmied, Virginia ^a   Kemp, Lynn ^b   Meade, Tanya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depression screening; Domestic violence screening; Mental health; Midwifery; Nursing; Postnatal depression; Psychosocial assessment; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDWIFE; NURSE; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADULT; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDWIFERY; NEW SOUTH WALES; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIVACY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84875891864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-13-18     Document Type: Article

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