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Psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on one-month postpartum mothers in a metropolitan area of Japan

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has recently become the most important issue in the world. Very few reports in Japan have examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on peripartum mental health. We examined the status of postpartum mental health before and during COVID-...

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Autores principales: Takubo, Youji, Tsujino, Naohisa, Aikawa, Yuri, Fukiya, Kazuyo, Iwai, Momoko, Uchino, Takashi, Ito, Megumu, Akiba, Yasuo, Mizuno, Masafumi, Nemoto, Takahiro
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8713041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34963448
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-04331-1
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author Takubo, Youji
Tsujino, Naohisa
Aikawa, Yuri
Fukiya, Kazuyo
Iwai, Momoko
Uchino, Takashi
Ito, Megumu
Akiba, Yasuo
Mizuno, Masafumi
Nemoto, Takahiro
author_facet Takubo, Youji
Tsujino, Naohisa
Aikawa, Yuri
Fukiya, Kazuyo
Iwai, Momoko
Uchino, Takashi
Ito, Megumu
Akiba, Yasuo
Mizuno, Masafumi
Nemoto, Takahiro
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description BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has recently become the most important issue in the world. Very few reports in Japan have examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on peripartum mental health. We examined the status of postpartum mental health before and during COVID-19 pandemic from a consecutive database in a metropolitan area of Japan. METHODS: The subjects were women who had completed a maternity health check-up at a core regional hospital in Yokohama during the period from April 1, 2017, to December 31, 2020. We collected the subjects’ scores for the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and the Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale (MIBS) at 1 month postpartum. The subjects were divided into four groups (three Before COVID-19 groups and a During COVID-19 group). MANOVA and post-hoc tests were used to determine mental health changes in the postpartum period among the four groups. RESULTS: The Before and During COVID-19 groups contained 2844 and 1095 mothers, respectively. There were no significant difference in the total scores of the EPDS and MIBS among the four groups. However, the EPDS items related to anxiety factors were significantly higher and the EPDS items related to anhedonia and depression factors (excluding thoughts of self-harm) were significantly lower in the During COVID-19 group. CONCLUSION: The EPDS scores changed in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. Anxiety, which represent hypervigilance, was significantly higher and anhedonia and depression were significantly lower in the During COVID-19 group. Our results may reflect COVID-19-related health concerns and a lack of social support caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-87130412021-12-28 Psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on one-month postpartum mothers in a metropolitan area of Japan Takubo, Youji Tsujino, Naohisa Aikawa, Yuri Fukiya, Kazuyo Iwai, Momoko Uchino, Takashi Ito, Megumu Akiba, Yasuo Mizuno, Masafumi Nemoto, Takahiro BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has recently become the most important issue in the world. Very few reports in Japan have examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on peripartum mental health. We examined the status of postpartum mental health before and during COVID-19 pandemic from a consecutive database in a metropolitan area of Japan. METHODS: The subjects were women who had completed a maternity health check-up at a core regional hospital in Yokohama during the period from April 1, 2017, to December 31, 2020. We collected the subjects’ scores for the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and the Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale (MIBS) at 1 month postpartum. The subjects were divided into four groups (three Before COVID-19 groups and a During COVID-19 group). MANOVA and post-hoc tests were used to determine mental health changes in the postpartum period among the four groups. RESULTS: The Before and During COVID-19 groups contained 2844 and 1095 mothers, respectively. There were no significant difference in the total scores of the EPDS and MIBS among the four groups. However, the EPDS items related to anxiety factors were significantly higher and the EPDS items related to anhedonia and depression factors (excluding thoughts of self-harm) were significantly lower in the During COVID-19 group. CONCLUSION: The EPDS scores changed in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. Anxiety, which represent hypervigilance, was significantly higher and anhedonia and depression were significantly lower in the During COVID-19 group. Our results may reflect COVID-19-related health concerns and a lack of social support caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. BioMed Central 2021-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8713041/ /pubmed/34963448 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-04331-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Takubo, Youji
Tsujino, Naohisa
Aikawa, Yuri
Fukiya, Kazuyo
Iwai, Momoko
Uchino, Takashi
Ito, Megumu
Akiba, Yasuo
Mizuno, Masafumi
Nemoto, Takahiro
Psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on one-month postpartum mothers in a metropolitan area of Japan
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title_full Psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on one-month postpartum mothers in a metropolitan area of Japan
title_fullStr Psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on one-month postpartum mothers in a metropolitan area of Japan
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title_short Psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on one-month postpartum mothers in a metropolitan area of Japan
title_sort psychological impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on one-month postpartum mothers in a metropolitan area of japan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8713041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34963448
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-04331-1
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