Description
Purpose:
Immigrant mothers check all the boxes that are significant risk factors for developing or exacerbating Postpartum Depression (PPD). These risk factors include, suffering in solitude, cultural conceptualizations, barriers to help seeking, and a lack of facilitators to help seeking. Despite this very little research has been done to find effective screening methods for this population.
The purpose of this research project is to compile the works of those before me to determine whether the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression or the PHQ 9 screening tool is the most effective for immigrant mothers.
Methods:
Research determining the effectivity of the two tests has been published. By comparing the two tests together and measuring the data sets I will be able to determine which of the two screening tests are more effective at determining the results of PPD in an immigrant population.
Results:
The PHQ test was found to have the widest reach across cultural barriers, while the Edinburgh screening test was facilitated by interpreters present during the screening causing the patient some reluctance in opening to the physician. Effectiveness was shown in multiple studies to come more from the screening method of the physician than the screening tool itself.
Conclusions:
Both the pHQ 9 and the Edinburgh screening tools were found to be effective, though the method in which they were used was seen to be the key indicator of a successful screening. Due to the phq 9 test having many culturally appropriate translations, it was seen as the more effective test to determine depression. Overall during the physician screening process most physicians felt that the tools would be ineffective because they were facilitating the tools often through several barriers, cultural and lingual being the foremost.
Disciplines
Health and Medical Administration | Health and Physical Education | Health Services Research | Maternal and Child Health | Medical Education | Medical Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences | Other Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment | Primary Care | Public Health Education and Promotion | Quality Improvement | Women's Health
Document Type
Event
Recommended Citation
JENSEN, JOSHUA, "Post-Partum Depression (PPD) Screening Tools Effectiveness in Refugee Populations" (2023). Annual Research Symposium. 13.
https://ecommons.roseman.edu/researchsymposium/2023/postergroup2/13
Included in
Health and Physical Education Commons, Health Services Research Commons, Maternal and Child Health Commons, Medical Education Commons, Medical Sciences Commons, Other Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Commons, Primary Care Commons, Public Health Education and Promotion Commons, Quality Improvement Commons, Women's Health Commons
Post-Partum Depression (PPD) Screening Tools Effectiveness in Refugee Populations
Purpose:
Immigrant mothers check all the boxes that are significant risk factors for developing or exacerbating Postpartum Depression (PPD). These risk factors include, suffering in solitude, cultural conceptualizations, barriers to help seeking, and a lack of facilitators to help seeking. Despite this very little research has been done to find effective screening methods for this population.
The purpose of this research project is to compile the works of those before me to determine whether the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression or the PHQ 9 screening tool is the most effective for immigrant mothers.
Methods:
Research determining the effectivity of the two tests has been published. By comparing the two tests together and measuring the data sets I will be able to determine which of the two screening tests are more effective at determining the results of PPD in an immigrant population.
Results:
The PHQ test was found to have the widest reach across cultural barriers, while the Edinburgh screening test was facilitated by interpreters present during the screening causing the patient some reluctance in opening to the physician. Effectiveness was shown in multiple studies to come more from the screening method of the physician than the screening tool itself.
Conclusions:
Both the pHQ 9 and the Edinburgh screening tools were found to be effective, though the method in which they were used was seen to be the key indicator of a successful screening. Due to the phq 9 test having many culturally appropriate translations, it was seen as the more effective test to determine depression. Overall during the physician screening process most physicians felt that the tools would be ineffective because they were facilitating the tools often through several barriers, cultural and lingual being the foremost.