Improving Perinatal Depression Care: The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project for Moms

Perinatal depression is common and associated with poor birth, infant, and child outcomes. Screening for perinatal depression alone does not improve treatment rates or patient outcomes. This paper describes the development, implementation, and outcomes of a new and low-cost population-based program to help providers address perinatal depression, the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project for Moms (MCPAP for Moms).

Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - March 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Nancy Byatt, Kathleen Biebel, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Barry Sarvet, Marcy Ravech, Jeroan Allison, John Straus Source Type: research