Following approval to conduct the study, potential subjects, who met the inclusion criteria, were identified and recruited by the respective antenatal clinic nurses on a day each pregnant woman received care in the clinic. After informing each potential subject about the study, the nurses gave each interested woman the primary investigator’s (PI) contact information, in the event she had questions or concerns about being in the study. Once a subject consented to take part in the study and signed a consent form, she was given, by the antenatal clinic nurses, the PCQ and MHPLP II to personally complete, while sitting in a private area of her respective
antenatal clinic. In addition, the day after each woman gave birth, the PI collected information regarding the maternal and infant outcomes (maternal complications, infant birth weight, gestational age, 5-minute APGAR scores, and congenital abnormality) from each subject’s hospital record. As a token of appreciation for her involvement in the study, each subject was given a baby gift set after completing the questionnaires.