• Alfred R Harrington and Claudia C Greene-Harrington.
• Department of Internal Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA. alfred_harrington@hotmail.com
• J Natl Med Assoc. 2007 Mar 1; 99 (3): 226231226-31.

ObjectiveTo examine perinatal depression in north and northeast Omaha, NE.MethodsThe records of a sample of 119 randomly selected clients from Omaha Healthy Start (OHS) were reviewed. Three screening instruments were employed to identify women with depression: they were asked whether they were depressed (DQ); they received the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale (EPDS) and/or the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).ResultsThe number of women with depressive symptoms identified by each technique varied from: DQ (16.8%), EPDS (16%) and BDI (7.6%). The three methods identified three subpopulations of women with different maternal and child health risk profiles reflected by their responses on an OHS-developed Maternal and Child Health Risk Assessment Tool.ConclusionIn combination, these simple techniques identified depressed women with different risk profiles who would have been missed using a single approach exclusively.

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