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Postpartum period refers to the period that immediately follows childbirth.
Postpartum Psychosis refers to the rare occurrence of severe, debilitating depression or Psychotic symptoms in the mother after childbirth or after giving birth.
Postpsychotic depressive disorder refers to a major depressive episode that is superimposed on and occurs during the residual phase of schizophrenia.
Posttest is a term in Industrial and Organizational Psychology that is defined as a measure of job performance or knowledge taken after a training program has been completed.
Posttest-only design with non-equivalent groups refers to a nonexperimental design in which one group is exposed to one level of an independent variable and a second group chosen using a different selection mechanism is exposed to a second level.
Posttesting is defined as the re-measurement of a dependent variable among subjects after they have been exposed to a stimulus representing an independent variable.