Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 261-265 , July 2005

Screening postpartum depression with the Taiwanese version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2004.10.003

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 261-265 , July 2005

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