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Social support and mental health in maternity: Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

BACKGROUND: Motherhood involves a process of adaptation and the perception of social support influences mental health, breastfeeding or newborn care among others. The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a distancing from family, friends and health professionals. METHODS: Quantitative, descriptive, cross...

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Autores principales: Tania, Alonso Titos, Natalia, Arias-Ramos, Verónica, Valle-Barrio, Pilar, Marqués-Sánchez, Rubén, García-Fernández, Cristina, Liébana-Presa
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Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9789545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36584610
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2022.103580
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author Tania, Alonso Titos
Natalia, Arias-Ramos
Verónica, Valle-Barrio
Pilar, Marqués-Sánchez
Rubén, García-Fernández
Cristina, Liébana-Presa
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Natalia, Arias-Ramos
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Pilar, Marqués-Sánchez
Rubén, García-Fernández
Cristina, Liébana-Presa
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description BACKGROUND: Motherhood involves a process of adaptation and the perception of social support influences mental health, breastfeeding or newborn care among others. The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a distancing from family, friends and health professionals. METHODS: Quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study. The present study aims to describe and analyze the social support and mental health of mothers during this period. METHODS: The sample were 179 women with children older than 6 months. The questionnaires used were the DUKE-UNC-11 and GHQ-12. Data analysis was carried out with Spearman's Rho and Mann Whitney U test. RESULTS: 75.8% of the sample perceived normal social support during the pandemic. Within the dimensions of social support, women reported perceiving satisfactory confidential support, while affective support was perceived as low. Correlational analysis reported a significant relationship between mental health, confidential support and affective support. Group comparison noted greater confidential support in primiparous. CONCLUSIONS: The sample is sensitive to changes originated by COVID-19 constraints influencing perceived social support and mental health. Affective and confidential support as well as the involvement of health professionals and the environment are fundamental for mental health during the first year of maternity. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: Mothers' mental health is sensitive and vulnerable to social changes, in this case, those that occurred as a consequence of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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spelling pubmed-97895452022-12-27 Social support and mental health in maternity: Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic Tania, Alonso Titos Natalia, Arias-Ramos Verónica, Valle-Barrio Pilar, Marqués-Sánchez Rubén, García-Fernández Cristina, Liébana-Presa Midwifery Article BACKGROUND: Motherhood involves a process of adaptation and the perception of social support influences mental health, breastfeeding or newborn care among others. The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a distancing from family, friends and health professionals. METHODS: Quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study. The present study aims to describe and analyze the social support and mental health of mothers during this period. METHODS: The sample were 179 women with children older than 6 months. The questionnaires used were the DUKE-UNC-11 and GHQ-12. Data analysis was carried out with Spearman's Rho and Mann Whitney U test. RESULTS: 75.8% of the sample perceived normal social support during the pandemic. Within the dimensions of social support, women reported perceiving satisfactory confidential support, while affective support was perceived as low. Correlational analysis reported a significant relationship between mental health, confidential support and affective support. Group comparison noted greater confidential support in primiparous. CONCLUSIONS: The sample is sensitive to changes originated by COVID-19 constraints influencing perceived social support and mental health. Affective and confidential support as well as the involvement of health professionals and the environment are fundamental for mental health during the first year of maternity. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: Mothers' mental health is sensitive and vulnerable to social changes, in this case, those that occurred as a consequence of the COVID-19 outbreak. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2023-03 2022-12-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9789545/ /pubmed/36584610 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2022.103580 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 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.
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Rubén, García-Fernández
Cristina, Liébana-Presa
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