Citation

Palladino CL, Singh V, Campbell JC, Flynn HA, Gold KJ. Obstet. Gynecol. 2012; 119(6): 1275-1276.

Affiliation

Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia (Palladino) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Singh) Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (Campbell) Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, Florida (Flynn) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Gold).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/AOG.0b013e31825888c7

PMID

22617606

Abstract

Patients seeking perinatal depression care face formidable barriers: mental-illness stigma, insurance barriers to mental health care, and lack of providers' depression-care training. Depression-screening questions without assessment and management (eg, treatment or referral to specialty care) put the onus for follow-up mostly on the patient. Although universal screening recommendations are tempting and a logical first step, the bulk of evidence in primary care settings shows that depression screening alone has little or no effect on clinical outcomes.

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