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Results for Postpartum Mental Health Screening

  1. Behavioral Health Primary Care Integration: Incorporate primary care and behavioral healthcare to better screen for postpartum depression.
  2. Collaborative Care Models: Support the coordination of care between obstetricians, primary care providers, pediatricians, and mental health providers to improve screening rates of postpartum depression and anxiety.
  3. Community Health Workers: Support Community Health Workers to provide postpartum mental health screenings to women from populations of focus.
  4. Community Partnerships: Collaborate with WIC clinics to address postpartum depression and anxiety screening.
  5. Digital Health Solutions: Adopt the use text message- and app-based postpartum depression and anxiety screening tools in the community setting.
  6. Integration into Routine Care: Facilitate partnerships between mental health providers and hospital NICU staff in order to integrate postpartum depression and anxiety screening into routine care for mothers with babies in the NICU
  7. Machine Learning: Collaborate with Universities/Schools of public health to develop a machine learning algorithm to identify women that screen positive during the first year following a live birthing using electronic health records.
  8. Patient Education: Support perinatal nurses in providing education to new mother's regarding the importance of postpartum depression and anxiety prior to discharge from the hospital following a live birth.
  9. Provider Training: Educate providers at FQHCs on the use of a standardized screening tool to identify women with postpartum depression and anxiety.
  10. Quality Improvement Initiatives: Support hospital quality improvement initiatives that take a multicomponent, systematic approach to increase postpartum depression and anxiety screening rates.
  11. Self-Screening: Support providers in disseminating a self-screening tool and referral pathway pamphlet during discharge from the maternity unit after delivery.
  12. Tailored Approaches: Support the development of tailored educational materials for new parents about postpartum depression and anxiety screening.
  13. Telemedicine: Provide telemedicine to promote reproductive healthcare.
  14. Universal Screening: Develop policy around universal screening in WIC clinics for postpartum women during the first year following a live birth.

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U02MC31613, MCH Advanced Education Policy, $3.5 M. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.