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Development of a Questionnaire to Assess the Psychosocial Effects of COVID-19 on Peripartum Women
Objective The social and behavioral changes brought about by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have led to adverse consequences on the psychosocial functioning of peripartum women. Therefore, we developed and validated a tool to assess the psychosocial effect of the pandemic among the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8091138/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33954074 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14270 |
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author | Kumari, Archana Rajasekaran, Keerthana Ranjan, Piyush Upadhyay, Ashish D Singh, Anju Kumar Chadda, Rakesh Bhatla, Neerja |
author_facet | Kumari, Archana Rajasekaran, Keerthana Ranjan, Piyush Upadhyay, Ashish D Singh, Anju Kumar Chadda, Rakesh Bhatla, Neerja |
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description | Objective The social and behavioral changes brought about by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have led to adverse consequences on the psychosocial functioning of peripartum women. Therefore, we developed and validated a tool to assess the psychosocial effect of the pandemic among these women. Methods The questionnaire was developed using a scientifically accepted systematic methodology comprising literature search, focus-group discussion (FGD), expert evaluation, pretesting, and validation. Results The final questionnaire consists of 38 questions, and it has a Cronbach's α value of 0.90 and a Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) value of 0.773. Conclusion The questionnaire has good reliability and face, content, and construct validity. It can be used to assess the psychosocial functioning of peripartum women in low middle-income countries and help perinatal mental health specialists to devise strategies to cope with the psychological impact of COVID-19-like pandemics on peripartum women. |
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spelling | pubmed-80911382021-05-04 Development of a Questionnaire to Assess the Psychosocial Effects of COVID-19 on Peripartum Women Kumari, Archana Rajasekaran, Keerthana Ranjan, Piyush Upadhyay, Ashish D Singh, Anju Kumar Chadda, Rakesh Bhatla, Neerja Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology Objective The social and behavioral changes brought about by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have led to adverse consequences on the psychosocial functioning of peripartum women. Therefore, we developed and validated a tool to assess the psychosocial effect of the pandemic among these women. Methods The questionnaire was developed using a scientifically accepted systematic methodology comprising literature search, focus-group discussion (FGD), expert evaluation, pretesting, and validation. Results The final questionnaire consists of 38 questions, and it has a Cronbach's α value of 0.90 and a Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) value of 0.773. Conclusion The questionnaire has good reliability and face, content, and construct validity. It can be used to assess the psychosocial functioning of peripartum women in low middle-income countries and help perinatal mental health specialists to devise strategies to cope with the psychological impact of COVID-19-like pandemics on peripartum women. Cureus 2021-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8091138/ /pubmed/33954074 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14270 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kumari et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Obstetrics/Gynecology Kumari, Archana Rajasekaran, Keerthana Ranjan, Piyush Upadhyay, Ashish D Singh, Anju Kumar Chadda, Rakesh Bhatla, Neerja Development of a Questionnaire to Assess the Psychosocial Effects of COVID-19 on Peripartum Women |
title | Development of a Questionnaire to Assess the Psychosocial Effects of COVID-19 on Peripartum Women |
title_full | Development of a Questionnaire to Assess the Psychosocial Effects of COVID-19 on Peripartum Women |
title_fullStr | Development of a Questionnaire to Assess the Psychosocial Effects of COVID-19 on Peripartum Women |
title_full_unstemmed | Development of a Questionnaire to Assess the Psychosocial Effects of COVID-19 on Peripartum Women |
title_short | Development of a Questionnaire to Assess the Psychosocial Effects of COVID-19 on Peripartum Women |
title_sort | development of a questionnaire to assess the psychosocial effects of covid-19 on peripartum women |
topic | Obstetrics/Gynecology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8091138/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33954074 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14270 |
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