Edinburgh postpartum depression scale 2025

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The document provides an overview of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, a tool designed to assess symptoms of postpartum depression (PPD) over the past week. It includes a series of ten questions that help individuals evaluate their emotional state, with scoring guidelines indicating when to seek professional help. The document emphasizes the importance of addressing PPD through counseling and/or medication and offers resources for further information.

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What is the normal range for the depression scale?

Questions 1, 2 and 3 Are scored 3, 2, 1, or 0 with the top box scored as 3 and the bottom box scored as 0. Total the scores for each question to get an overall score. The EPDS-3 has a total potential score of 9. The EPDS-3 score is converted to an EPDS-10 score by multiplying the EPDS-3 score by 10 and dividing by 3.

What is the Edinburgh depression Scale score?

09 = normal, 1019 = mild depression, 2030 = severe depression.

What is the Edinburgh postpartum depression Scale?

Mild depression (713), Moderate depression (1419), Severe depression (1930). It is interesting to note that many women had scores between 7 and 13, what we would label as nondepressed on the EPDS but a score that would be called mild depression using more conventional scales of depression severity.

What is the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale numbers?

The BEDS is a simple and brief tool used to screen for depression in advanced cancer patients. It is administered throughout the UK and multiple translation studies have enabled its global a (including in resource poor countries).

What is a normal EPDS score?

The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) was developed to assist primary care health professionals in detecting mothers suffering from postpartum depression (PPD); a distressing disorder more prolonged than the blues (which occur in the first week after delivery), but less severe than puerperal psychosis.