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Research Article

Lost in Translation: Staff and Interpreters’ Experiences of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale with Women from Refugee Backgrounds

, PhD, MSc, BSc, , BA, MA & , PhD, BaHSc, Hons
Pages 648-657 | Published online: 04 Sep 2013

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