Quality Improvement: Post-Partum Depression Screening Rates and Patient Perception of Knowledge Assessment

Purpose: The purpose of this project is to implement the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommendations regarding postpartum depression (PPD) screenings, while also providing education on the topic itself to create a PPD assessment program. By doing so we will 1) Monitor the percentage of patients who are able to receive the PPD screenings as recommended by ACOG, and 2) assess the change of the patient’s perception of PPD knowledge during the postpartum period compared to the antepartum period.
Methods: The Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Screening (EPDS) tool will be utilized to screen the risk of the expecting mothers at the first visit, the last visit. A PPD perception of knowledge assessment tool was designed to assess the patient’s knowledge regarding the topic which will be measured through a 5-point Agreement Likert Scale upon the first encounter (antepartum) as well as on the last (postpartum).