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The 3 item anxiety subscale of the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale may detect postnatal depression as well as the 10 item full scale
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Does the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale (EPDS-3) anxiety subscale perform as well as the full 10 item EPDS scale in screening for postnatal depression, and how do other brief screening alternatives compare?
Mothers (n = 199; 14–26 years) who made 
1 visit to the Colorado Adolescent Maternity Program with an infant 
6 months old.
Primary care paediatric clinic for children of adolescent mothers, Colorado, USA; time period not stated.
EPDS-3 brief screening tool for postnatal depression. The EPDS-3 is a subscale of the full 10 item EPDS which includes the three anxiety related items. Other brief alternatives that were compared were the depressive EPDS subscale (EPDS-7) and the two items of the EPDS that resemble the Patient Health Questionnaire (EPDS-2). The score on each scale was multiplied by 10 and divided by the number of items used, so that a cut-off of 10 could be used for all scales. In
University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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