Edinburgh postnatal depression scale
depressive, depressive symptoms
The EPDS is designed to measure the intensity of depressive symptoms over the past week, using 10 items scored using a 4-point Likert scale. Each item is scored from 0 to 3, and the total score ranges from 0 to 40. Higher scores indicated more depressive symptoms, which resulted in good reliability (Cronbach’s α = 0.77) [