Outcomes
depression, Depression, anxiety
The primary outcome of this study was the proportion of women with a composite of poor mental health outcomes (defined as any of vulnerability to depression, anxiety, or poor mental HRQoL) at 36 weeks’ gestation and 6 months after birth.Depression was measured using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), a validated tool for assessing postpartum depression among pregnant women [Secondary outcomes assessed included incidence of anxiety, depression, and poor mental HRQoL at 36 weeks and 6 months postpartum, and mean STAI, EPDS, and SF-36 (all eight scales of the SF-36 and the two summary measures) scores at 36 weeks’ gestation and 6 months postpartum.