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Perinatal depression during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in a single prenatal clinic in Southern Italy: The role of loneliness, anxiety, and maternal support
BACKGROUND: The current study aimed at assessing the levels of perinatal depression (i.e., both antenatal and postnatal) during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in a group of Italian women, as well as to evaluate the role of loneliness, anxiety, and lack of maternal support in cumulatively p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10141786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37152681 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100585 |
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author | Scandurra, Cristiano Mezzalira, Selene Aviani, Silvia Lastra, Valeria Bochicchio, Vincenzo Zapparella, Rosanna Saccone, Gabriele Maldonato, Nelson Mauro Locci, Mariavittoria |
author_facet | Scandurra, Cristiano Mezzalira, Selene Aviani, Silvia Lastra, Valeria Bochicchio, Vincenzo Zapparella, Rosanna Saccone, Gabriele Maldonato, Nelson Mauro Locci, Mariavittoria |
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description | BACKGROUND: The current study aimed at assessing the levels of perinatal depression (i.e., both antenatal and postnatal) during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in a group of Italian women, as well as to evaluate the role of loneliness, anxiety, and lack of maternal support in cumulatively predicting perinatal depression. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 200 Italian women recruited during a peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy (i.e., from September to December 2021) from a single prenatal clinic in Southern Italy. A non-parametric binomial test was conducted to assess whether the perinatal depression frequencies of the current sample differed from those found in a pre-Covid reference group. Additionally, hierarchical multiple linear regression analyses assessing whether loneliness, anxiety, and maternal support affected women's perinatal depression were also conducted. RESULTS: The general prevalence of perinatal depression was significantly higher in participants recruited during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the pre-Covid reference group (29% vs. 9.2%). However, results showed that, contrary to postnatal depression (18.2% vs. 19.9%), only the prevalence of antenatal depression was significantly higher compared to the pre-Covid reference group (39.6% vs. 6.4%). Furthermore, loneliness and anxiety, but not maternal support, were associated with higher levels of PD. LIMITATIONS: Limitations concerned the cross-sectional nature of the study and the relatively small sample size. CONCLUSIONS: This study sheds light on the need to address perinatal mental health of women during major stressful events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-101417862023-05-01 Perinatal depression during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in a single prenatal clinic in Southern Italy: The role of loneliness, anxiety, and maternal support Scandurra, Cristiano Mezzalira, Selene Aviani, Silvia Lastra, Valeria Bochicchio, Vincenzo Zapparella, Rosanna Saccone, Gabriele Maldonato, Nelson Mauro Locci, Mariavittoria J Affect Disord Rep Research Paper BACKGROUND: The current study aimed at assessing the levels of perinatal depression (i.e., both antenatal and postnatal) during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in a group of Italian women, as well as to evaluate the role of loneliness, anxiety, and lack of maternal support in cumulatively predicting perinatal depression. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 200 Italian women recruited during a peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy (i.e., from September to December 2021) from a single prenatal clinic in Southern Italy. A non-parametric binomial test was conducted to assess whether the perinatal depression frequencies of the current sample differed from those found in a pre-Covid reference group. Additionally, hierarchical multiple linear regression analyses assessing whether loneliness, anxiety, and maternal support affected women's perinatal depression were also conducted. RESULTS: The general prevalence of perinatal depression was significantly higher in participants recruited during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the pre-Covid reference group (29% vs. 9.2%). However, results showed that, contrary to postnatal depression (18.2% vs. 19.9%), only the prevalence of antenatal depression was significantly higher compared to the pre-Covid reference group (39.6% vs. 6.4%). Furthermore, loneliness and anxiety, but not maternal support, were associated with higher levels of PD. LIMITATIONS: Limitations concerned the cross-sectional nature of the study and the relatively small sample size. CONCLUSIONS: This study sheds light on the need to address perinatal mental health of women during major stressful events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2023-07 2023-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10141786/ /pubmed/37152681 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100585 Text en © 2023 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Research Paper Scandurra, Cristiano Mezzalira, Selene Aviani, Silvia Lastra, Valeria Bochicchio, Vincenzo Zapparella, Rosanna Saccone, Gabriele Maldonato, Nelson Mauro Locci, Mariavittoria Perinatal depression during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in a single prenatal clinic in Southern Italy: The role of loneliness, anxiety, and maternal support |
title | Perinatal depression during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in a single prenatal clinic in Southern Italy: The role of loneliness, anxiety, and maternal support |
title_full | Perinatal depression during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in a single prenatal clinic in Southern Italy: The role of loneliness, anxiety, and maternal support |
title_fullStr | Perinatal depression during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in a single prenatal clinic in Southern Italy: The role of loneliness, anxiety, and maternal support |
title_full_unstemmed | Perinatal depression during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in a single prenatal clinic in Southern Italy: The role of loneliness, anxiety, and maternal support |
title_short | Perinatal depression during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in a single prenatal clinic in Southern Italy: The role of loneliness, anxiety, and maternal support |
title_sort | perinatal depression during the fourth wave of the covid-19 outbreak in a single prenatal clinic in southern italy: the role of loneliness, anxiety, and maternal support |
topic | Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10141786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37152681 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100585 |
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