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  • Patients view perinatal depression screenings as ineffective, study finds

    Oct 13, 2021 3:00 pm by Sharita ForrestResearch
    doctoral student Wan-Jung (Wendy) Hsieh; Brandon Meline, director of the Maternal and Child Health Division at the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District; doctoral student Marissa Sbrilli; and social work professors Karen Tabb and Tuyet-Mai Ha Hoang. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

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    • doctoral student Wan-Jung (Wendy) Hsieh; Brandon Meline, director of the Maternal and Child Health Division at the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District; doctoral student Marissa Sbrilli; and social work professors Karen Tabb and Tuyet-Mai Ha Hoang. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

    Interviews with pregnant and postpartum women in central Illinois suggest that health care providers may conduct perinatal depression screenings in ways that hamper their efficacy and overlook patients’ symptoms.