Clinical measurements to assess women’s mental health: self-report questionnaires in common perinatal mental disorders
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25118/2763-9037.2014.v4.184Keywords:
Perinatal, postpartum depression, self-report scalesAbstract
The use of psychiatric scales in clinical practice is widely known and can be useful as a part of diagnostic evaluations, to identify the presence or absence of a given mental disorder, to monitor treatment progress, and also to quantify and record symptom severity. The perinatal period may be associated with adverse outcomes and may have negative impacts on women’s mental health. Even though only a fewinstruments have been developed especially for this subpopulation, there is growing body of evidence suggesting that close, continued monitoring of symptoms and of the conditions most commonly present in this period via the use of self-report questionnaires may improve decision-making and help indicate specialized treatment as early as possible whenever necessary.
Downloads
Metrics
References
American Psychiatric Association. DSM-5. Am J Psychiatry. 2013. http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleID=158714nhttp://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&btnG=Search&q=intitle:DSM-5
Greene JG. A factor analytic study of climacteric symptoms. J Psychosom Res. 1976;20:425-30.
Greene JG. Constructing a standard climacteric scale. Maturitas. 1998;29:25-31.
Kessler RC, McGonagle KA, Zhao S, Nelson CB, Hughes M, Eshleman S, et al. Lifetime and 12-monthprevalence of DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders in the United States. Results from the National Comorbidity Survey. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1994;51:8-19.
Kessler RC, Keller MB, Wittchen HU. The epidemiology of generalized anxiety disorder. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2001;24:19-39.
Kessler RC, Chiu WT, Demler O, Merikangas KR, Walters EE. Prevalence, severity, and comorbidity of 12-month DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2005;62:617-27.
Wenzel A, Haugen EN, Jackson LC, Brendle JR. Anxiety symptoms and disorders at eight weeks postpartum. J Anxiety Disord. 2005;19:295-311.
Wenzel A, Haugen EN, Jackson LC, Robinson K. Prevalence of generalized anxiety at eight weeks postpartum. Arch Womens Ment Health. 2003;6:43-9.
Ruscio AM, Stein DJ, Chiu WT, Kessler RC. The epidemiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Mol Psychiatry. 2010;15:53-63.
Zambaldi CF, Cantilino A, Montenegro AC, Paes JA, de Albuquerque TLC, Sougey EB. Postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder: prevalence and clinical characteristics. Compr Psychiatry. 2009;50:503-9.
Viguera AC, Tondo L, Koukopoulos AE, Reginaldi D, Lepri B, Baldessarini RJ. Episodes of mood disorders in 2,252 pregnancies and postpartum periods. Am J Psychiatry. 2011;168:1179-85.
Munk-Olsen T, Laursen TM, Meltzer-Brody S, Mortensen PB, Jones I. Psychiatric disorders with postpartum onset: possible early manifestations of bipolar affective disorders. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2012;69:428-34.
Sharma V, Burt VK, Ritchie HL. Bipolar II postpartum depression: Detection, diagnosis, and treatment. Am J Psychiatry. 2009;166:1217-21.
Kim J-H, Choi SS, Ha K. A closer look at depression in mothers who kill their children: is it unipolar or bipolar depression? J Clin Psychiatry. 2008;69:1625-31.
Cox JL, Holden JM, Sagovsky R. Detection of postnatal depression. Development of the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. Br J Psychiatry. 1987;150:782-6.
Matthey S, Fisher J, Rowe H. Using the Edinburghpostnatal depression scale to screen for anxiety disorders: Conceptual and methodological considerations. J Affect Disord. 2013;146:224-30.
Matthey S. Using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale to screen for anxiety disorders. Depress Anxiety. 2008;25:926-31.
Beck CT, Gable RK. Postpartum depression screening scale: Development and psychometric testing. Nurs Res. 2000;49:272-82.
Cantilino A, Carvalho JA, Maia A, Albuquerque C, Cantilino G, Sougey EB. Translation, validation and cultural aspects of postpartum depression screening scale in Brazilian Portuguese. Transcult Psychiatry. 2007;44:672-84.
Hirschfeld RM, Williams JB, Spitzer RL, Calabrese JR, Flynn L, Keck PE Jr, et al. Development and validation of a screening instrument for bipolar spectrum disorder: the Mood Disorder Questionnaire. Am J Psychiatry. 2000;157:1873-5.
De Sousa Gurgel W, Rebouças DB, Negreiros de Matos KJ, Carneiro AH, Gomes de Matos e Souza F, Grupo de Estudos em Transtornos Afetivos Affective Disorders Study Group. Brazilian Portuguese validation of Mood Disorder Questionnaire. Compr Psychiatry. 2012;53:308-12.
Castelo MS, Carvalho ER, Gerhard ES, Costa CM, Ferreira ED, Carvalho AF. Validity of the mood disorder questionnaire in a Brazilian psychiatric population. Rev Bras Psiquiatr. 2010;32:424-8.
Frey BN, Simpson W, Wright L, Steiner M. Sensitivity and specifi city of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire as a screening tool for bipolar disorder during pregnancy and the postpartum period. J Clinical Psychiatry. 2012;73:1456-61.
Spitzer RL, Kroenke K, Williams JB, Löwe B. A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: the GAD-7. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1092-7.
Simpson W, Glazer M, Michalski N, Steiner M, Frey BN. Comparative effi cacy of the generalized anxiety disorder 7-item scale and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale as screening tools for generalized anxiety disorder in pregnancy and the postpartum period. Can J Psychiatry. 2014;59:434-40.
Lord C, Rieder A, Hall GB, Soares CN, Steiner M. Piloting the perinatal obsessive-compulsive scale (POCS): development and validation. J Anxiety Disord. 2011;25:1079-84.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Debates em Psiquiatria allows the author (s) to keep their copyrights unrestricted. Allows the author (s) to retain their publication rights without restriction. Authors should ensure that the article is an original work without fabrication, fraud or plagiarism; does not infringe any copyright or right of ownership of any third party. Authors should also ensure that each one complies with the authorship requirements as recommended by the ICMJE and understand that if the article or part of it is flawed or fraudulent, each author shares responsibility.
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) - Debates em Psiquiatria is governed by the licencse CC-By-NC
You are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. Under the following terms:
- Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
