Postnatal depressive symptoms display marked similarities across continents

Postnatal depressive symptoms measured by the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) are reported to display measurement variance regarding factor structure and the frequency of specific depressive symptoms. However, postnatal depressive symptoms measured by EPDS have not been compared between women representing three continents. A cross-sectional study including birth cohort samples from Denmark, Vietnam and Tanzania. Women were included...