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Impact of the fear of Covid-19 infection on intent to breastfeed; a cross sectional survey of a perinatal population in Qatar
OBJECTIVES: Infection control measures during the Covid-19 pandemic have focused on limiting physical contact and decontamination by observing cleaning and hygiene rituals. Breastfeeding requires close physical contact and observance of hygienic measures like handwashing. Worries around contaminatio...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8817146/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35123438 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04446-z |
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author | Reagu, Shuja Mohd Abuyaqoub, Salwa Babarinsa, Isaac Kader, Nisha Abdul Farrell, Thomas Lindow, Stephen Elhassan, Nahid M. Ouanes, Sami Bawazir, Noor Adnan, Anum Hussain, Dina Boumedjane, Malika Alabdulla, Majid |
author_facet | Reagu, Shuja Mohd Abuyaqoub, Salwa Babarinsa, Isaac Kader, Nisha Abdul Farrell, Thomas Lindow, Stephen Elhassan, Nahid M. Ouanes, Sami Bawazir, Noor Adnan, Anum Hussain, Dina Boumedjane, Malika Alabdulla, Majid |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Infection control measures during the Covid-19 pandemic have focused on limiting physical contact and decontamination by observing cleaning and hygiene rituals. Breastfeeding requires close physical contact and observance of hygienic measures like handwashing. Worries around contamination increase during the perinatal period and can be expressed as increase in obsessive compulsive symptoms. These symptoms have shown to impact breastfeeding rates. This study attempts to explore any relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic and perinatal obsessive–compulsive symptomatology and whether the Covid-19 pandemic has any impact on intent to breastfeed. METHODS: A cross sectional survey of perinatal women attending largest maternity centre in Qatar was carried out during the months of October to December 2020. Socio-demographic information, intent to breastfeed and information around obsessive compulsive thoughts around Covid-19 pandemic were collected using validated tools. RESULTS: 15.7% respondents report intent to not breastfeed. 21.4% respondents reported obsessive–compulsive symptoms. 77.3% respondents believed the biggest source of infection was from others while as only 12% of the respondents believed that the source of infection was through breastfeeding and 15.7% believed the vertical transmission as the main source of risk of transmission. CONCLUSIONS: The rates of Obsessive–compulsive symptoms were increased and the rates of intent to breastfeed were decreased when compared with pre pandemic rates. The obsessive–compulsive symptoms and the intent to not breastfeed were significantly associated with fear of infection to the new-born. Obsessive–compulsive symptoms were not significantly correlated with intent to breastfeed and can be seen as adaptive strategies utilized by women to continue breastfeeding in the context of fear of infection. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12884-022-04446-z. |
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spelling | pubmed-88171462022-02-07 Impact of the fear of Covid-19 infection on intent to breastfeed; a cross sectional survey of a perinatal population in Qatar Reagu, Shuja Mohd Abuyaqoub, Salwa Babarinsa, Isaac Kader, Nisha Abdul Farrell, Thomas Lindow, Stephen Elhassan, Nahid M. Ouanes, Sami Bawazir, Noor Adnan, Anum Hussain, Dina Boumedjane, Malika Alabdulla, Majid BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research OBJECTIVES: Infection control measures during the Covid-19 pandemic have focused on limiting physical contact and decontamination by observing cleaning and hygiene rituals. Breastfeeding requires close physical contact and observance of hygienic measures like handwashing. Worries around contamination increase during the perinatal period and can be expressed as increase in obsessive compulsive symptoms. These symptoms have shown to impact breastfeeding rates. This study attempts to explore any relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic and perinatal obsessive–compulsive symptomatology and whether the Covid-19 pandemic has any impact on intent to breastfeed. METHODS: A cross sectional survey of perinatal women attending largest maternity centre in Qatar was carried out during the months of October to December 2020. Socio-demographic information, intent to breastfeed and information around obsessive compulsive thoughts around Covid-19 pandemic were collected using validated tools. RESULTS: 15.7% respondents report intent to not breastfeed. 21.4% respondents reported obsessive–compulsive symptoms. 77.3% respondents believed the biggest source of infection was from others while as only 12% of the respondents believed that the source of infection was through breastfeeding and 15.7% believed the vertical transmission as the main source of risk of transmission. CONCLUSIONS: The rates of Obsessive–compulsive symptoms were increased and the rates of intent to breastfeed were decreased when compared with pre pandemic rates. The obsessive–compulsive symptoms and the intent to not breastfeed were significantly associated with fear of infection to the new-born. Obsessive–compulsive symptoms were not significantly correlated with intent to breastfeed and can be seen as adaptive strategies utilized by women to continue breastfeeding in the context of fear of infection. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12884-022-04446-z. BioMed Central 2022-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8817146/ /pubmed/35123438 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04446-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Reagu, Shuja Mohd Abuyaqoub, Salwa Babarinsa, Isaac Kader, Nisha Abdul Farrell, Thomas Lindow, Stephen Elhassan, Nahid M. Ouanes, Sami Bawazir, Noor Adnan, Anum Hussain, Dina Boumedjane, Malika Alabdulla, Majid Impact of the fear of Covid-19 infection on intent to breastfeed; a cross sectional survey of a perinatal population in Qatar |
title | Impact of the fear of Covid-19 infection on intent to breastfeed; a cross sectional survey of a perinatal population in Qatar |
title_full | Impact of the fear of Covid-19 infection on intent to breastfeed; a cross sectional survey of a perinatal population in Qatar |
title_fullStr | Impact of the fear of Covid-19 infection on intent to breastfeed; a cross sectional survey of a perinatal population in Qatar |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of the fear of Covid-19 infection on intent to breastfeed; a cross sectional survey of a perinatal population in Qatar |
title_short | Impact of the fear of Covid-19 infection on intent to breastfeed; a cross sectional survey of a perinatal population in Qatar |
title_sort | impact of the fear of covid-19 infection on intent to breastfeed; a cross sectional survey of a perinatal population in qatar |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8817146/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35123438 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04446-z |
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