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The COVID-19 pandemic impact on prenatal anxiety
INTRODUCTION: Anxiety manifestations are one of the most described symptoms during pregnancy. Meanwhile, the effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the mental health and anxiety distress in particular, of pregnant and postpartum women remains unclear. OBJECTIVES: The purpose o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9566986/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1331 |
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author | Nourchene, K. Khelifa, E. Maatouk, O. Ben Aissa, S. Abassi, B. Bouguerra, I. Anissa, B. Amdouni, F. Mnif, L. |
author_facet | Nourchene, K. Khelifa, E. Maatouk, O. Ben Aissa, S. Abassi, B. Bouguerra, I. Anissa, B. Amdouni, F. Mnif, L. |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Anxiety manifestations are one of the most described symptoms during pregnancy. Meanwhile, the effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the mental health and anxiety distress in particular, of pregnant and postpartum women remains unclear. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of our study was to evaluate anxiety among prgnant women during covid19 and describe its associated factors METHODS: It was a comparative cross-sectional case- control study in a Tunisian gynecologic department. All women were in the third term of pregnancy. Anxiety symptoms were evaluated using Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). The data were compared to a control group assessed in a similar study conducted before the pandemic in the same city. Eighty pregnant women was investigated during the covid pandemic and 100 pregnant women investigated before the COVID-19 outbreak in Tunisia was assigned to the control group. RESULTS: Pregnant women during COVID-19 scored less on BAI than controls (15.49±9.223 vs 17.40±7.410). Less patients presented moderate to severe anxiety during pandemic (38.8% (n=31) than controls 51% (n=51)). The difference between groups in means and prevalence values was not significant. The negative results could be related to the low power of the test (P=0.36). CONCLUSIONS: Despite the expected psychological distress among vulnerable population , Covid-19 didn’t impact anxiety prevalence or scores among pregnant women in our current study . DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships. |
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spelling | pubmed-95669862022-10-17 The COVID-19 pandemic impact on prenatal anxiety Nourchene, K. Khelifa, E. Maatouk, O. Ben Aissa, S. Abassi, B. Bouguerra, I. Anissa, B. Amdouni, F. Mnif, L. Eur Psychiatry Abstract INTRODUCTION: Anxiety manifestations are one of the most described symptoms during pregnancy. Meanwhile, the effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the mental health and anxiety distress in particular, of pregnant and postpartum women remains unclear. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of our study was to evaluate anxiety among prgnant women during covid19 and describe its associated factors METHODS: It was a comparative cross-sectional case- control study in a Tunisian gynecologic department. All women were in the third term of pregnancy. Anxiety symptoms were evaluated using Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). The data were compared to a control group assessed in a similar study conducted before the pandemic in the same city. Eighty pregnant women was investigated during the covid pandemic and 100 pregnant women investigated before the COVID-19 outbreak in Tunisia was assigned to the control group. RESULTS: Pregnant women during COVID-19 scored less on BAI than controls (15.49±9.223 vs 17.40±7.410). Less patients presented moderate to severe anxiety during pandemic (38.8% (n=31) than controls 51% (n=51)). The difference between groups in means and prevalence values was not significant. The negative results could be related to the low power of the test (P=0.36). CONCLUSIONS: Despite the expected psychological distress among vulnerable population , Covid-19 didn’t impact anxiety prevalence or scores among pregnant women in our current study . DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships. Cambridge University Press 2022-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9566986/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1331 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstract Nourchene, K. Khelifa, E. Maatouk, O. Ben Aissa, S. Abassi, B. Bouguerra, I. Anissa, B. Amdouni, F. Mnif, L. The COVID-19 pandemic impact on prenatal anxiety |
title | The COVID-19 pandemic impact on prenatal anxiety |
title_full | The COVID-19 pandemic impact on prenatal anxiety |
title_fullStr | The COVID-19 pandemic impact on prenatal anxiety |
title_full_unstemmed | The COVID-19 pandemic impact on prenatal anxiety |
title_short | The COVID-19 pandemic impact on prenatal anxiety |
title_sort | covid-19 pandemic impact on prenatal anxiety |
topic | Abstract |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9566986/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1331 |
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