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Table 3 Comparison of three factors of emotions obtained from the EPDS-S and FREQ-S by age

From: Comparison of response options and actual symptom frequency in the Japanese version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in women in early pregnancy and non-pregnant women

Score

 

Non-pregnant women

Pregnant women

 

N=63

Total (n=382)

10's (n=6)

20's (n=172)

30's (n=194)

40's (n=10)

p- value

EPDS-S

Anhedonia

0.19±0.40

0.13±0.31

0.33±0.52

0.11±0.29

0.14±0.32

0.20±0.42

0.25

Anxiety

1.14±0.54

0.70±0.64***

1.28±0.71

0.74±0.62

0.66±0.62

0.63±1.10

0.0001

Depression

0.74±0.07

0.58±0.03*

1.17±0.96

0.58±0.55

0.57±0.50

0.53±0.07

0.0247

FREQ-S

Anhedonia

0.73±0.08

0.37±0.03***

0.83±0.98

0.33±0.56

0.40±0.60

0.25±0.52

0.0001

Anxiety

0.81±0.82

0.62±0.73

1.00±0.82

0.63±0.75

0.59±0.67

0.87±1.18

0.15

Depression

0.52±0.70

0.48±0.61

1.11±1.09

0.51±0.64

0.45±0.56

0.53±0.48

0.12

  1. The p-values by one-way analysis of variance are shown. The results of multiple comparisons showed that EPDS-S and FREQ-S were significantly higher in the teens than in other age groups
  2. **The p-value in comparison with the non-pregnant group was < 0.01
  3. ***The p-value in comparison with the non-pregnant group was < 0.001
  4. EDPS-S Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale score, FREQ-S frequency score