Author Archives: Priscilla Novak, Stacey Iobst

About Priscilla Novak, Stacey Iobst

Stacey Iobst, PhD, RN, is a Summer Junior Fellow at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She earned her PhD from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Future of Nursing Scholar. Stacey's research interests focus on the relationships among clinical and non-clinical factors and cesarean birth, shared decision-making during labor and childbirth, and postpartum depression in rural women.

Rural Postpartum Mental Health: the Challenge to Improve

By | July 17, 2020
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Depressed mother with baby

Postpartum depression is common, preventable, and treatable. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) challenge competition, “Cross-Sectional Innovation to Improve Rural Postpartum Mental Health,” identifies what communities are doing to improve access to mental healthcare for rural women. Furthermore, the challenge seeks new solutions to ensure that more women and families receive the help… Read More »