Niki O'Brien, Marium Soomro, Alexandra Shaw, Kanwal Latif, Yiwen Wu, Zakiuddin Ahmed, Mike Durkin
Regional perspectives on patient safety policies and initiatives: a focus group study with patient safety leaders in the Middle East and Asian regions
BMJ open quality
background frontline healthcare professionals provide regular care women antenatal postnatal period play critical role early detection management maternal perinatal mental health pmh study aimed assess knowledge attitudes perceptions doctors around perinatal mental health obstetrics gynaecology og department singapore methods using online survey data collected 55 doctors participated doctors knowledge attitudes perceptions perinatal mental health idoc study survey questions assessed knowledge attitudes perceptions practices relation pmh among doctors og specialty descriptive data presented means standard deviations sds frequency percentages results 55 doctors half 600 aware adverse impacts poor pmh 837 doctors confident providing pmh advice 655 routinely screen patients pmh disorders lower percentage doctors 109 vs 345 p0001 discussed pmh issues antenatal period compared postnatal period statistically significant majority doctors 982 agreed standardised pmh guidelines useful doctors agreed benefits pmh guidelines education routine screening patients conclusion inadequate pmh literacy among og doctors lack emphasis antenatal pmh disorder findings highlighted need increased education development perinatal mental health guidelines