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. 2018 Feb 12:20:e52.
doi: 10.1017/S1463423618000099.

Moving beyond depression screening: integrating perinatal depression treatment into OB/GYN practices

Christina Terrazas  1 , Lisa S Segre  2 , Cheryl Wolfe  1
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Moving beyond depression screening: integrating perinatal depression treatment into OB/GYN practices

Christina Terrazas et al. Prim Health Care Res Dev. .

Abstract

In 2015, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a recommendation to screen women for depression and anxiety symptoms at least once during the perinatal period. Nevertheless, many identified women will not receive care from a behavioral health specialist. Listening Visits (LV), developed for delivery by nurses and validated in the United Kingdom, have recently been evaluated in a US-based randomized controlled trial (RCT) which recruited research participants from three home-visiting programs and an urban OB/GYN practice. RCT results indicated clinically and significant improvement in depression symptoms. To bridge the gap between evidence and practice, and based on experiences garnered at the OB/GYN site during the RCT, this development paper proposes a strategy for implementing depression screening and LV into routine clinical care in this practice setting.

Keywords: ACOG Recommendations Depression Screening; Listening Visits; OB/GYN practice; depression; postpartum; pregnancy.

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Proposed protocol for depression screening and Listening Visits in an OB/GYN practice.
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