作者
Yueh-Hsiu Mathilda Chiu, Perry E Sheffield, Hsiao-Hsien Leon Hsu, Jonathan Goldstein, Paul C Curtin, Rosalind J Wright
发表日期
2017/12
期刊
Archives of women's mental health
卷号
20
页码范围
803-810
出版商
Springer Vienna
简介
The ten-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is one of the most widely used self-report measures of postpartum depression. Although originally described as a one-dimensional measure, the recognition that depressive symptoms may be differentially experienced across cultural and racial/ethnic groups has led to studies examining structural equivalence of the EPDS in different populations. Variation of the factor structure remains understudied across racial/ethnic groups of US women. We examined the factor structure of the EPDS assessed 6 months postpartum in 515 women (29% black, 53% Hispanic, 18% white) enrolled in an urban Boston longitudinal birth cohort. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) identified that a three-factor model, including depression, anxiety, and anhedonia subscales, was the most optimal fit in our sample as a whole and across race/ethnicity. Confirmatory factor …
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