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Ten questions about the past seven days, for anyone who is pregnant or has recently had a baby. Nothing you enter is saved or sent anywhere.

EPDS · Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale · Screens for perinatal and postnatal depression

Before you start. This is a screening tool, not a diagnostic instrument. It cannot diagnose you and completing it does not create a provider-patient relationship. Nothing you enter is stored, transmitted, or seen by anyone.

As you are pregnant or have recently had a baby, we would like to know how you are feeling. Please choose the answer that comes closest to how you have felt in the past 7 days, not just how you feel today.

  1. 1.I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things.
  2. 2.I have looked forward with enjoyment to things.
  3. 3.I have blamed myself unnecessarily when things went wrong.
  4. 4.I have been anxious or worried for no good reason.
  5. 5.I have felt scared or panicky for no very good reason.
  6. 6.Things have been getting on top of me.
  7. 7.I have been so unhappy that I have had difficulty sleeping.
  8. 8.I have felt sad or miserable.
  9. 9.I have been so unhappy that I have been crying.
  10. 10.The thought of harming myself has occurred to me.
0 of 10 answered

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About this instrument

Cox, J.L., Holden, J.M., and Sagovsky, R. 1987. Detection of postnatal depression: Development of the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. British Journal of Psychiatry 150:782-786. Users may reproduce the scale without further permission providing they respect copyright by quoting the names of the authors, the title and the source of the paper in all reproduced copies.

Free with required citation, copyright held by the Royal College of Psychiatrists