Patient outcomes following positive depression screening in a postpartum clinic: A single center retrospective cohort study
Aleesha Jasmin Jethwa, Nan Guo, Natasha Harrison, Dipro Chakraborty, Kimberly Mendoza, Natsumi Kii, Brendan Carvalho, Danielle Mari Panelli, Pervez Sultan · 2026
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Jethwa and colleagues examined in 2026 what happens after new mothers screen positive for depression at the six-week checkup. They followed records from more than eight thousand patients at one center. Screening with a standard questionnaire is routine, but whether a positive screen turns into care was poorly charted. The team tracked referrals to social work and psychiatry for a year after birth.
About one patient in eight received a new mental health referral after the screening visit. Positive screens drew far more referrals than negative ones, roughly thirty-seven versus five in a hundred for social work. Still, most positive-screen patients were never referred, a gap the authors call critical. Referrals after positive screens also came faster, mostly within two months. The authors back screening across the whole perinatal period, not once.
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| CREATOR | Aleesha Jasmin Jethwa, Nan Guo, Natasha Harrison, Dipro Chakraborty, Kimberly Mendoza, Natsumi Kii, Brendan Carvalho, Danielle Mari Panelli, Pervez Sultan |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 22 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |