Emotional well-being
Depression
LATE PREGNANCY
At baseline, 61 (98.4%) women in gANC and 64 (95.5%) women in sANC responded to all 10 EPDS questions. In late pregnancy, 39 (97.5%) women in gANC and 37 (92.5%) women in sANC responded, and at the last measurement 2 months post partum, 41 women in both groups, respectively, responded to all items (gANC 93.2%; sANC 97.6%).Mean EPDS scores were higher in women in gANC than in women in sANC at baseline (gANC 9.19; sANC 5.94; difference in means 3.26; 95% CI 1.56 to 4.96) and in late pregnancy (gANC 8.51; sANC 5.73; difference in means 2.78; 95% CI 0.62 to 4.95) (Median scores on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). At baseline (Q1), late pregnancy (Q2) and 2 months post partum (Q3), analysed by ANCOVA test of differences. The boxplot also shows minimum and maximum score, and the first and third quartile and the mean differences with 95% CI at each time point. ANCOVA, analysis of covariance.We also checked the mean EPDS score of women who only responded to Q1. In women who later dropped out of the study, the mean EPDS score at baseline was 7.2 (median 6.0; IQR 4.0–10.0), which was somewhat lower than the EPDS scores of all women (mean 7.5, median 7.0; IQR 4.0–11.0).