Mentor
Dr. Michael O'Hara
Participation year
2006
Project title

Train the Trainer: Maternal Depression Screening - An Evaluation of the Training Workshop

Abstract

"Train the Trainer" is a workshop that teaches representatives from many agencies about: 1) postpartum depression, 2) how to effective teach their direct providers, and 3) how to effectively develop their own screening programs. These representatives will, in turn, provide this training material to providers within their agencies and implement depression screening. Each representative will also develop a depression screening program for their agency, suing the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) as a depression screening tool. The goal of the "Train the Trainer" workshop was to teach representatives from different maternal health programs about postpartum depression and its detection so that in turn they could teach their staff to implement depression screening. This project evaluated the overall quality of the workshop. The results indicated that participants were more knowledgeable about postpartum depression, it's effects, methods of screening, and treatment after the presentation.

Silnettra  Davis
Education
North Carolina A & T University