Do Pediatricians Recognize Mothers With Depressive Symptoms?
From the * Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York. Objective. To determine whether pediatric health care providers recognize maternal depressive symptoms and to explore whether maternal, provider, and visit characteristics affect pediatric providers’ ability to recognize inner-city mothers with depressive symptoms. Design. A cross-sectional study was conducted at a hospital-based, inner-city, general pediatric clinic. Two groups of participants completed questionnaires, each unaware of the other’s responses: 1) mothers who brought their children ages 6 months to 3 years for health care maintenance or a minor acute illness and 2) pediatric health care providers (attending pediatricians, pediatric trainees, and nurse practitioners). The mothers’ questionnaire consisted of sociodemographic items and a self-administered assessment of depressive symptoms using the Psychiatric Symptom Index (PSI). P
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