Perinatal mental health screening for women of refugee background: Addressing a major gap in pregnancy care.

Background: Perinatal mental health disorders affect up to 20% of all women. Women of refugee background are likely to be at increased risk, yet little research has explored this. This study aimed to assess if women of refugee background are more likely to screen risk positive for depression and anxiety than non-refugee women, using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS); and if screening in pregnancy using the EPDS enables better detection of depression and anxiety symptoms in women of refugee background than routine care.

"If you don't ask … you don't tell": Refugee women's perspectives on perinatal mental health screening.

Problem: National guidelines recommending mental health screening in pregnancy have not been implemented well in routine maternity care. Women of refugee background are likely to have experienced traumatic events and resettlement stressors, yet are not often identified with mental health issues in the perinatal period.

Background: Globally, perinatal mental health conditions affect up to 20% of women.

Implementing innovative evidence-based perinatal mental health screening for women of refugee background.

Problem: National guidelines recommend repeated screening for depression and anxiety for all women in the perinatal period. Routine screening in pregnancy is limited due to service, community and individual barriers.

Background: Perinatal depression and perinatal anxiety affect up to 20% of all women.

Advance care planning, culture and religion: an environmental scan of Australian-based online resources.

Objectives Culture and religion are important in advance care planning (ACP), yet it is not well understood how this is represented in ACP online resources. The aim of the present study was to identify the availability of Australian-based ACP websites and online informational booklets containing cultural and religious information. Methods An environmental scanning framework was used with a Google search conducted from 30 June 2015 to 5 July 2015.