Utilization of the scale of depression post childbirth of the edinburgh in a maternity ward of a county paraiba
Objective: To verify the risk for Postpartum Depression from the use of the Edimburgh Scale in an obstetric service in a municipality of Paraíba. Method: field research, descriptive, with quantitative approach. The research was carried out in the joint housing sector and the sample comprised of 136 puerperal women over the age of 18 who were hospitalized in the service in March and April 2019. The Edinburgh Scale was used for data collection. Brazilian version.