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This machine-readable record includes the response pattern and should only be shared intentionally.
The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, usually shortened to EPDS, is a 10-question screen used to organize how someone has been feeling across the previous 7 days during pregnancy or after birth. It matters because low mood, loss of enjoyment, panic, poor coping, and thoughts of self-harm can be easy to dismiss as exhaustion unless they are gathered into a clearer pattern.
This tool turns those ten answers into an in-app result that is easier to review in one place. You get a total score out of 30, a severity badge, an Item 10 safety badge, a gauge, and a longer written summary that breaks the answers into package-level groupings such as Anhedonia, Anxiety, Low mood, and Coping.
That makes it useful when someone wants a more structured check-in before talking with a midwife, general practitioner, therapist, or trusted support person. It can also help with repeat self-monitoring when the more practical question is whether the same person is drifting in a steadier direction over time, not just what a single number says today.
A realistic use case is a parent who has had a difficult week, is sleeping badly, and wants to sort out whether the rough patch feels more like worry, sadness, loss of enjoyment, or being overwhelmed by daily tasks. A compact summary can make that conversation more concrete than trying to describe the whole week from memory.
This screen is informational and not a diagnosis. A higher score does not confirm a depressive disorder, and a lower score does not cancel out urgent concern. Any non-zero result on Item 10 should be treated as a stop-and-check signal that needs direct human follow-up rather than solo interpretation.
Use the tool when you can answer for the previous 7 days rather than only for the worst hour of today. If the week has been unusually chaotic, the result is still useful, but it helps to remember what made the week atypical before you compare it with a later run.
For a first pass, move through the questions in one sitting and answer with the closest option instead of trying to make every choice perfect. The progress bar, question list, and Answered badge are there to keep the screen complete. If the summary has not appeared, one or more items are still blank.
Read the top result as a package, not as a single badge. Start with Total, then check the severity badge, then look at Item 10, and only after that use the grouped notes for Anhedonia, Anxiety, Low mood, and Coping to see what is driving the score inside this app.
This is a good fit for structured reflection and follow-up discussion. It is a poor fit for deciding that everything is fine just because the total is not in the highest band, especially when Item 10 is elevated or the written summary says a pattern feels persistent. Before you trust the result, make sure the badge row and the longer interpretation are telling the same story.
Privacy is strong but not absolute if you share links casually. The package keeps answers in the browser and has no tool-specific backend, yet it also stores the response pattern in the URL parameter r, so a copied bookmark or message link can recreate sensitive answers.
The clinical EPDS is a 10-item screening questionnaire for depressive symptoms in the perinatal period, answered with reference to the previous 7 days. Official guidance treats it as a screen rather than a diagnosis, uses the total to judge whether follow-up is warranted, and treats Question 10 as an immediate safety checkpoint when it is above zero.
This package keeps the ten EPDS prompts but adds its own interpretation layer. Alongside the total score, it creates four package-defined grouped views: Anhedonia from items 1 and 2, Anxiety from items 3 to 5, Coping from item 6, and Low mood from items 7 to 9. It also ranks higher-scoring and lower-scoring items to create the Drivers & strengths block.
The scoring path in the package is important if you plan to compare results. Each answer is stored as an integer from 0 to 3. The app then transforms items 1 and 2 as 3 - response before summing the total, while items 3 to 10 are added directly. Because the grouped subtotals use that same scored set, repeated checks are most comparable within this tool and its own scoring engine rather than being assumed identical to every other EPDS workflow.
Threshold handling is explicit. The package labels totals from 0 to 9 as Minimal / No Depression, totals from 10 to 12 as Mild Depression, and totals from 13 to 30 as Probable Depression. The Item 10 badge is separate from those bands and flips from clear to elevated whenever the stored response is 1, 2, or 3.
The core package score can be summarized with one total over ten scored item values:
Here si equals 3 - response for items 1 and 2, and equals the stored response value for items 3 through 10.
| Field or symbol | Meaning in this package | Range | Where it appears |
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T |
Total score across all 10 scored items | 0-30 | Summary box, gauge, written analysis |
Anhedonia |
Grouped subtotal from items 1 and 2 | 0-6 | Summary chips and subscore panel |
Anxiety |
Grouped subtotal from items 3, 4, and 5 | 0-9 | Summary chips and subscore panel |
Coping |
Grouped score from item 6 alone | 0-3 | Summary chips and subscore panel |
Low mood |
Grouped subtotal from items 7, 8, and 9 | 0-9 | Summary chips and subscore panel |
Item 10 |
Safety item shown as a separate badge and note | 0-3 | Top badge row and written summary |
| Output | Lower | Upper | How the app reads it | Interpretation boundary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Minimal / No Depression |
0 | 9 | Lowest package band | Total <= 9 |
Mild Depression |
10 | 12 | Middle package band | 10 <= total <= 12 |
Probable Depression |
13 | 30 | Highest package band | Total >= 13 |
| Grouped severity labels | n/a | n/a | none, mild, moderate, severe for each grouped subtotal |
Based on 25%, 50%, and 75% of each grouping's maximum |
Two more implementation details affect follow-up use. First, the Drivers & strengths section ignores Item 10 and ranks only items 1 to 9. Second, the package serializes answers into a 10-character r value using digits 0 to 3 and - for blanks, which makes bookmark-based restoration possible without a server.
Use this sequence when you want a complete result that you can review privately or take into a follow-up conversation.
Start Assessment. The introduction explains that answers should reflect the previous 7 days and stay in the browser unless you share the link yourself.Previous, Next, or the question list if you want to move around, and watch the progress bar for a quick completion check.Item 10 badge that marks whether the safety item is clear or elevated.Anhedonia, Anxiety, Low mood, and Coping, plus the higher-scoring and lower-scoring items that shaped the result.Copy CSV, Download CSV, or Export DOCX actions if you want a record for discussion. Before sharing anything, remember that the URL parameter r can recreate the response pattern.The most important output is still the top summary row, not the gauge by itself. Check Total, the severity badge, and Item 10 together before you read the grouped subtotals as explanation.
Probable Depression band means the package total is 13 or higher. It does not mean the tool has diagnosed depression, and official EPDS guidance still expects follow-up assessment and clinical judgment.Item 10 is elevated. Verify that badge before you let a Minimal / No Depression or Mild Depression label reassure you.Anhedonia and Anxiety are interpretation aids created by this package. Use them to see what is driving this run, not as stand-alone diagnoses or as guaranteed matches to another EPDS implementation.If you are repeating the assessment, keep the same 7-day frame and compare runs from this same tool. That gives the cleanest reading of whether the pattern is moving, even when one answer changes the total by only a point or two.
A parent answers items 1 and 2 with the fourth choice, uses low or middle options for items 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8, and leaves Item 10 at Never. In one such pattern the package returns Total 5, the Minimal / No Depression badge, Anxiety 2/9, Low mood 2/9, and Item 10 clear. That is best read as a lower-band result that still deserves context, not as proof that support is unnecessary.
If a user selects several mid-to-higher symptom options across the first eight questions and still answers Never on Item 10, the app can return Total 13 with the Probable Depression badge. A run like that may also show grouped values such as Anxiety 5/9 and Low mood 5/9. The practical point is that the total has crossed the package's top band boundary even without an elevated safety item.
A user reaches item 10 with nine answered questions and assumes the gauge should already be visible. The summary does not render because Answered has not reached 10/10 and the progress bar is still below 100 percent. Once the final radio choice is selected, the app calculates the score, shows the badge row, and unlocks the written interpretation plus the answers table.
No. The package provides a screening-style result and its own in-app interpretation layers, but it does not diagnose a depressive disorder. Higher totals and an elevated Item 10 badge are signals to slow down and seek follow-up, not final clinical answers.
Because the app treats any stored value above zero on Item 10 as elevated. That badge is separate from the main severity band so a lower total cannot cancel the need to pay attention to a self-harm response.
No. Anhedonia, Anxiety, Low mood, Coping, and the Drivers & strengths block are package-defined aids built from the scored answers. They help explain this app's output but should not be treated as separate diagnostic tests.
The tool bundle has no tool-specific backend and keeps responses in browser state, but it also writes the answer pattern into the URL parameter r. That means the link itself can reproduce answers if it is copied or shared.