Background: Postnatal depression is a non-psychotic depressive disorder that begins within 4 weeks of childbirth and occurs in 13% of mothers and 10% of fathers. A prospective study with the aim to evaluate the prevalence of postnatal depression by screening parents with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) in the Italian paediatric primary care setting was performed.
Methods: Mothers and fathers of infants born between 1 February and 31 July 2012, living in Italy's Milan-1 local health unit area, represented the target population of this pilot study.
Objectives: to compare the benefit of a personalised outpatient therapy prescribed upon discharge by the cardiology unit to the patients undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stent or bare-metal stent vs. the usual practice.
Design: controlled, multicentre, non-randomized study that enrolled patients who underwent coronary stent implantation and treated in the year after stent implantation with two protocols: the treatment group received Clopidogrel directly from the cardiology unit at each monitoring visit; the control group received a prescription for outpatient treatment through the standard retail pharmacy channel.