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CHAPTER 34 Cheryl Tatano Beck 673

as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing locally, nationally, and internationally. She has served
in 1993. on the editorial boards of many nursing journals,
This body of work has resulted in a substantive including Advances in Nursing Science, Nursing
theory of postpartum depression (Beck, 1993) and Research, and the Journal of Nursing Education. Beck
the development of the Postpartum Depression served on the executive board for the Marce Society,
Screening Scale (PDSS) (Beck, 2002c; Beck & Gable, an international society for the understanding, pre-
2000) and the Postpartum Depression Predictors vention, and treatment of mental illness associated
Inventory (PDPI) (Beck, 1998, 2001, 2002b). A time- with childbirth, and on the advisory committee of
line of Beck’s research that demonstrates the logical the Donaghue Medical Research Foundation in
progression of her work is outlined in Table 34–1. Connecticut. Over her career, Beck has been given
A prolific author and disseminator of her research, numerous local, national, and international awards
Beck has authored more than 100 research-based for her work. Most recently, in 2011, Beck was given
articles and given scores of research presentations the Best Publication by Sigma Theta Tau International

TABLE 34-1 Timeline of Beck’s Perinatal Research
Year Focus of Research Year Focus of Research

1972 Women’s cognitive and emotional responses to 1998 Effects of PPD on child development
fetal monitoring (master’s thesis) 1998 Checklist to identify women at risk for PPD
1977 Replication of master’s thesis 1999 Maternal depression and child behavioral
1982 Parturients’ temporal experiences during labor problems
(doctoral dissertation) 2000 PDSS: Development and psychometric testing
1985 Mothers’ temporal experiences in postpartum 2001 Comparative analysis between PDSS and two
period after vaginal and cesarean deliveries other depression instruments
1988 Postpartum temporal experiences of primiparas 2001 Item response theory in affective instrument
1989 Incidence of maternity blues in primiparas and development
length of hospital stay 2001 Ensuring content validity
1990 Teetering on the edge: A grounded theory study 2002 PPD—metasynthesis
of PPD 2002 Revision of PDPI
1992 The lived experience of PPD 2002 Mothering multiples
1994 Nurses’ caring with postpartum depressed 2003 PPD in mothers of babies in the NICU
mothers
1995 Screening methods for PPD 2003 PDSS—Spanish version
Birth trauma
2004
1995 PPD and maternal-infant interaction
2004 Posttraumatic stress disorder after childbirth
1995 Mothers’ with PPD perceptions of nurses’ caring
2004 Benefits of internet interviews
1996 Relationship between PPD and infant
temperament 2005 DHA in pregnancy
2005 Birth trauma and breastfeeding
1996 Predictors of PPD metaanalysis
2005 Mapping birth trauma narratives
1996 Mothers with PPD and their experiences
interacting with children 2007 PDSS—Internet
1996 Concept analysis of panic 2009 Mothers caring for a child with a brachial plexus
injury
1997 Developing research programs using qualitative
and quantitative approaches 2012 Subsequent childbirth after previous birth trauma
NICU, Neonatal intensive care unit; PDPI, Postpartum Depression Predictors Inventory; PDSS, Postpartum Depression Screening Scale; PPD, postpartum
depression.