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Table 1 Data collection points and study measures

From: Antenatal psychosocial risk status and Australian women’s use of primary care and specialist mental health services in the year after birth: a prospective study

Time

Measures

Instrument + validation studies + indications of previous use

Maternal measures of perinatal mental health, psychosocial risk and mediating factors

 T1, T3

 T4, T5

Mental Heath

Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) [41]

Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HADS) anxiety subscale [42]

 T1

Psychosocial risk

Antenatal Risk Questionnaire (ANRQ)

 T1

Help-seeking

General Help-Seeking Questionnaire [43]

Service need and utilisation

 T1-T5

Maternal rating of need, service utilisation and service quality

Emotional Health Service Utilisation Questionnaire Comprises: 1) services the woman accessed for help; 2) types of health professionals seen; 3) types of treatments received; 4) when health professionals seen (pregnancy or postpartum); 5) rating of the helpfulness of contacts/treatments.