TY - JOUR AU - Khalifa, Dina Sami AU - Glavin, Kari AU - Bjertness, Espen AU - Lien, Lars PY - 2018 DA - 2018/08/08 TI - Course of depression symptoms between 3 and 8 months after delivery using two screening tools (EPDS and HSCL-10) on a sample of Sudanese women in Khartoum state JO - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth SP - 324 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Effects of depression on parenting and on cognitive development of newborns are augmented when symptoms continue throughout the first postnatal year. Current classification systems recognize maternal depression as postnatal if symptoms commence within four to six weeks. Traditional cultural rituals in Sudan offer new mothers adequate family support in the first 6–8 weeks postpartum. The course of postnatal depression symptoms beyond that period is not explored in such settings. We therefore aim to investigate the change in screening status and in severity of depression and distress symptoms between three and eight months postpartum among a sample of Sudanese women using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and a locally used tool: the 10-items Hopkins Symptoms Checklist (HSCL-10). SN - 1471-2393 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-018-1948-1 DO - 10.1186/s12884-018-1948-1 ID - Khalifa2018 ER -