we did so with an eye to contributing to more comprehensive approaoach to postpratum assessment and health promotion progromming for low-incom women. we were guided by the following questions
1 are the individual domains of psychosocial and behavioral health related of at 6 weeks postpartum?
2 what is the dustribution 0f cumulative poor psychosocial and behavioral health?
3 what rich factors (demographic and health-related factors)are associated with cumulative poor health and individual domains?
in addition,the following question was explored to provide insinghts into poor health domains:
4 what scale itens for various domains may be particuary salient to identify poor psychosocial and bahavioral health at 6 weeka postpratum