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Maternal depression: Technology enabled self screening in real time
Sheenu Jhawar1,2, Shiv Dutt Gupta3, Arindam Das3
1Apex Hospitals P L, Jaipur, India.
The first step toward providing treatment, is getting the right diagnosis in real time; before it is too late. Without this, resource deployment may appear to be comparable to the scale and scope of the problem, while in reality it may just be a drop in the ocean. Maternal depression, during pregnancy is a debilitating risk to both the mother and the child, but the bigger problem is, it goes unnoticed, undetected, and therefore untreated. If mobile technology can be deployed to screen for depression in real time by the pregnant mother herself, it will go miles in creating a HOPE for health.
The first step toward providing treatment, is getting the right diagnosis in real time; before it is too late. Without this, resource deployment may appear to be comparable to the scale and scope of the problem, while in reality it may just be a drop in the ocean. Maternal depression, during pregnancy is a debilitating risk to both the mother and the child, but the bigger problem is, it goes unnoticed, undetected, and therefore untreated. If mobile technology can be deployed to screen for depression in real time by the pregnant mother herself, it will go miles in creating a HOPE for health.
