USPSTF 2019: interventions to prevent perinatal depression

The 2019 statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force on preventing depression in pregnancy and after birth. It recommends that clinicians provide or refer pregnant and postpartum people at increased risk of depression to counselling.

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Overview

Technical summary

JAMA recommendation statement, 2019, B recommendation. Only the PubMed abstract was read. The issuer is the shared USPSTF record in core, and the recommendation decision names it. The recommendation text is carried in the claim on the counselling page. The guideline's source is the USPSTF final recommendation statement page, which gives the statement date that the recommendation decisions use; the JAMA statement stays cited in the claims.

About this guideline

Edition
USPSTF final recommendation statement, as shown on its page; also published as: Recommendation statement, JAMA 2019
Published
2019-02-12
Status
Not checked for a newer edition
Scope
Interventions to prevent perinatal depression in pregnant and postpartum persons.

Source

Document
Perinatal Depression: Preventive Interventions (USPSTF final recommendation statement page)
Publisher
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Edition note
Final recommendation statement page as fetched on 2026-10-14 (mx-uspstf-perinatal-depression-preventive-interventions.html). The date under the title is February 12, 2019.

Recommendations

Record details

Record id
maternal:guideline-uspstf-2019-perinatal-depression
Content hash
90f0f443f926eb689e4afc8cd86d71b38efc20b7ccd197b93e787dd781a63fbf