COVID-19-related anxiety and concerns expressed by pregnant and postpartum women—a survey among obstetricians

This paper from India describes anxieties that pregnant and postpartum women reported to obstetricians during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the 118 obstetricians who responded to an online survey, most had been contacted for concerns about hospital visits (72.65%), methods of protection (60.17%), the sa...

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Autores principales: Nanjundaswamy, Madhuri H., Shiva, Lakshmi, Desai, Geetha, Ganjekar, Sundarnag, Kishore, Thomas, Ram, Uma, Satyanarayana, Veena, Thippeswamy, Harish, Chandra, Prabha S.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Vienna 2020
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7445074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32839898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00737-020-01060-w
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author Nanjundaswamy, Madhuri H.
Shiva, Lakshmi
Desai, Geetha
Ganjekar, Sundarnag
Kishore, Thomas
Ram, Uma
Satyanarayana, Veena
Thippeswamy, Harish
Chandra, Prabha S.
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description This paper from India describes anxieties that pregnant and postpartum women reported to obstetricians during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the 118 obstetricians who responded to an online survey, most had been contacted for concerns about hospital visits (72.65%), methods of protection (60.17%), the safety of the infant (52.14%), anxieties related to social media messages (40.68%) and contracting the infection (39.83%). Obstetricians felt the need for resources such as videos, websites and counselling skills to handle COVID-related anxiety among perinatal women.
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spelling pubmed-74450742020-08-26 COVID-19-related anxiety and concerns expressed by pregnant and postpartum women—a survey among obstetricians Nanjundaswamy, Madhuri H. Shiva, Lakshmi Desai, Geetha Ganjekar, Sundarnag Kishore, Thomas Ram, Uma Satyanarayana, Veena Thippeswamy, Harish Chandra, Prabha S. Arch Womens Ment Health Short Communication This paper from India describes anxieties that pregnant and postpartum women reported to obstetricians during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the 118 obstetricians who responded to an online survey, most had been contacted for concerns about hospital visits (72.65%), methods of protection (60.17%), the safety of the infant (52.14%), anxieties related to social media messages (40.68%) and contracting the infection (39.83%). Obstetricians felt the need for resources such as videos, websites and counselling skills to handle COVID-related anxiety among perinatal women. Springer Vienna 2020-08-25 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7445074/ /pubmed/32839898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00737-020-01060-w Text en © Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Nanjundaswamy, Madhuri H.
Shiva, Lakshmi
Desai, Geetha
Ganjekar, Sundarnag
Kishore, Thomas
Ram, Uma
Satyanarayana, Veena
Thippeswamy, Harish
Chandra, Prabha S.
COVID-19-related anxiety and concerns expressed by pregnant and postpartum women—a survey among obstetricians
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title_short COVID-19-related anxiety and concerns expressed by pregnant and postpartum women—a survey among obstetricians
title_sort covid-19-related anxiety and concerns expressed by pregnant and postpartum women—a survey among obstetricians
topic Short Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7445074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32839898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00737-020-01060-w
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