According to an article published in the medical journal Health day based on a magazine study Pediatrics This month, postpartum depression could be detected with three key questions. The answers to these three simple questions they can be enormously identifying a case of depression and help detect it early.
According to the study information, postpartum depression is the most common problem that new mothers face. The condition is characterized by high levels of anxiety, but is underdiagnosed.
The three key questions are:
1.- I have guilty unnecessarily when things have gone wrong. 2.- I have felt fear or panic Without having a good reason. 3.- I've been anxious or worried Without a good reason.The new mothers were asked to answer "Yes, most of the time", "Yes, part of the time", "No, not very often" or "No, never".
Dr. Catherine Stevens-Simon, lead author of the study ran a childbirth and postpartum care center for young mothers in Denver, Colorado. The study was carried out on 199 mothers between 14 and 26 years of age, performing larger tests and this shortened version, finding that it is very significant in their results.
"We chose these three questions because other studies have suggested that postpartum depression has a great anxiety component, and those three questions are specifically related to anxiety," said study co-author Jeanelle Sheeder, a senior professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado in Denver. "This subscale is probably also reasonable in other populations, because in general a large part of postpartum depression is related to that feeling of not knowing what to do and feeling scared or panicking."
