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App Intervention Tied to Lower PPD Rates

What: A randomized control trial of over 100 pregnant women who were not depressed found those assigned to get virtual education and the ability to ask follow-up questions via What’s App afterwards were less likely to experience postpartum depression.

Key line: “The prevalence of postpartum depression, as measured by the EPDS and PHQ-9, was 7.4% and 3.7% in the intervention group, compared to 46.3% and 27.8% in the control group. These differences were statistically significant between the two groups.”

Source: BMC Psychology

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