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Psychological effect of COVID-19 pandemic among women undergoing infertility care, a French cohort – PsyCovART Psychological effect of COVID-19: PsyCovART
Purpose: To assess psychological state of women who experienced postponement of ART care during the first COVID-19 wave in a French public ward of reproductive medicine. Methods: An online anonymous survey was emailed between July and August 2020 to all women whose infertility care, including the fi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8501520/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34638007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jogoh.2021.102251 |
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author | Lablanche, Océane Salle, Bruno Perie, Marie-Ange Labrune, Elsa Langlois-Jacques, Carole Fraison, Eloise |
author_facet | Lablanche, Océane Salle, Bruno Perie, Marie-Ange Labrune, Elsa Langlois-Jacques, Carole Fraison, Eloise |
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description | Purpose: To assess psychological state of women who experienced postponement of ART care during the first COVID-19 wave in a French public ward of reproductive medicine. Methods: An online anonymous survey was emailed between July and August 2020 to all women whose infertility care, including the first consultation for infertility, have been delayed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Anxiety, depression, and stress were assessed using Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10). Feelings about COVID-19 outbreak, lockdown and suspension of fertility care were assessed by Multiple-Choice Questions and Visual Analog Scales. Results: 435 women answered to the survey (response rate 34.6%). Mean levels of the HADS-A (anxiety), HADS-D (depression) and PSS10 were respectively 7.58(±3.85), 4.51(±3.48), and 27(±6.75). Prevalence of stress was 50.8% and almost half of women presented clear or suggestive anxiety symptoms (respectively 21.6% and 25.7%). Stress and anxiety rates were much higher than those expected in infertile population. Increased stress was observed in women above 35 years and those stopped ‘in cycle’ or during pre-treatment for in-vitro fertilization or frozen embryo transfer. Patient with history of depression or anxiety had a higher prevalence of perceived stress (p = 0.0006). Postponement was perceived as ‘unbearable’ for women experiencing stress (p = 0.0032). After the first wave of pandemic, pregnancy desire remained the same and 84.3% of women wanted to resume fertility care as soon as possible. Conclusion: Stopping fertility care during the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant psychological impact on women with an increase of stress, and anxiety. Psychological counseling should always be offered especially during this difficult period. |
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spelling | pubmed-85015202021-10-12 Psychological effect of COVID-19 pandemic among women undergoing infertility care, a French cohort – PsyCovART Psychological effect of COVID-19: PsyCovART Lablanche, Océane Salle, Bruno Perie, Marie-Ange Labrune, Elsa Langlois-Jacques, Carole Fraison, Eloise J Gynecol Obstet Hum Reprod Original Article Purpose: To assess psychological state of women who experienced postponement of ART care during the first COVID-19 wave in a French public ward of reproductive medicine. Methods: An online anonymous survey was emailed between July and August 2020 to all women whose infertility care, including the first consultation for infertility, have been delayed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Anxiety, depression, and stress were assessed using Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10). Feelings about COVID-19 outbreak, lockdown and suspension of fertility care were assessed by Multiple-Choice Questions and Visual Analog Scales. Results: 435 women answered to the survey (response rate 34.6%). Mean levels of the HADS-A (anxiety), HADS-D (depression) and PSS10 were respectively 7.58(±3.85), 4.51(±3.48), and 27(±6.75). Prevalence of stress was 50.8% and almost half of women presented clear or suggestive anxiety symptoms (respectively 21.6% and 25.7%). Stress and anxiety rates were much higher than those expected in infertile population. Increased stress was observed in women above 35 years and those stopped ‘in cycle’ or during pre-treatment for in-vitro fertilization or frozen embryo transfer. Patient with history of depression or anxiety had a higher prevalence of perceived stress (p = 0.0006). Postponement was perceived as ‘unbearable’ for women experiencing stress (p = 0.0032). After the first wave of pandemic, pregnancy desire remained the same and 84.3% of women wanted to resume fertility care as soon as possible. Conclusion: Stopping fertility care during the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant psychological impact on women with an increase of stress, and anxiety. Psychological counseling should always be offered especially during this difficult period. Elsevier Masson SAS. 2022-01 2021-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8501520/ /pubmed/34638007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jogoh.2021.102251 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. 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 | Original Article Lablanche, Océane Salle, Bruno Perie, Marie-Ange Labrune, Elsa Langlois-Jacques, Carole Fraison, Eloise Psychological effect of COVID-19 pandemic among women undergoing infertility care, a French cohort – PsyCovART Psychological effect of COVID-19: PsyCovART |
title | Psychological effect of COVID-19 pandemic among women undergoing infertility care, a French cohort – PsyCovART Psychological effect of COVID-19: PsyCovART |
title_full | Psychological effect of COVID-19 pandemic among women undergoing infertility care, a French cohort – PsyCovART Psychological effect of COVID-19: PsyCovART |
title_fullStr | Psychological effect of COVID-19 pandemic among women undergoing infertility care, a French cohort – PsyCovART Psychological effect of COVID-19: PsyCovART |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychological effect of COVID-19 pandemic among women undergoing infertility care, a French cohort – PsyCovART Psychological effect of COVID-19: PsyCovART |
title_short | Psychological effect of COVID-19 pandemic among women undergoing infertility care, a French cohort – PsyCovART Psychological effect of COVID-19: PsyCovART |
title_sort | psychological effect of covid-19 pandemic among women undergoing infertility care, a french cohort – psycovart psychological effect of covid-19: psycovart |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8501520/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34638007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jogoh.2021.102251 |
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