Postpartum blues - a Czech adaptation of the Maternity Blues Questionnaire

Abstract

To validate the Kennerley and Gath's Maternity Blues Questionnaire (MBQ) for the postpartum Czech population, to present the psychometric properties of the Czech version of that screening method, and to assess its predictive power for the risk of postpartum depression.

Keywords

• Maternity Blues Questionnaire
• postpartum blues
• postpartum depression
• postnatal depression
• EPDS
• postpartum mood