BABY BLUES SCREENING ON POST-PARTUM MOTHER BY COMPARING EPDS AND PHQ-9 METHODS FOR HEALTH-CARE SERVICE AND PUBLIC APPLICATIONS IN LUBUK BUAYA COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE PADANG CITY, INDONESIA

Abstract

Studies find out that baby blues and postnatal depression on mother are quite a lot. One of two recent-childbirth mothers (50%) might ever experience baby blues, and around 10% will continue to become a post-natal depression. Around 70% of all post-partum mothers experience baby blues, and around 10-20% puerperal mothers get post-partum depression. The effort to detect baby blues is to conduct screening with EPDS and PHQ-9. The objectives of this study were to get validity and reliability of questionnaire by EPDS and PHQ methods to screen baby blues in post-partum mothers and to find out the right method of conducting screening. This study was using descriptive-correlation design to describe the result of baby blues screening of post-partum mother by EPDS and PHQ-9 methods. The Study population was a post-partum mother from one week to six weeks that amounted to 60 subjects where all of them were sample in this study. Data analysis was conducted to validate questionnaire by EPDS and PHQ-9 methods and tested with sensitivity and specificity testing, and the data was processed to describe screening result so that it could draw motherwith baby blues syndrome. Screening result became positive if the score was ≥ 10 and negative if the score was < 10 for EPDS method. While baby blues screening with The PHQ-9 method used 9 questions and score of ≥ 5 resulted in baby blues syndrome. Study result showed that sensitivity and specificity testing on EPDS screening method were 46.7% and 66.7%, respectively; testing result on PHQ-9 method were 46.7% and 73.3%, respectively. From this study, it can reveal that both methods can detect baby blues inthe post-partum mother. EPDS and PHQ-9 methods can be applied to the same level of confidential to screen baby blues on the post-partum mother.