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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Health Anxiety Predicts Postponing or Cancelling Routine Medical Health Care Appointments among Women in Perinatal Stage during the Covid-19 Lockdown.

Mehran Shayganfard, Fateme Mahdavi, Mohammad Haghighi, Dena Sadeghi Bahmani, Serge Brand

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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28 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Mehran ShayganfardDepartment of Psychiatry, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak 3848176341, Iran.
Fateme MahdaviStudent Research Committee, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak 3848176341, Iran.
Mohammad HaghighiResearch Center for Behavioral Disorders and Substances Abuse, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan 65174, Iran.
Dena Sadeghi BahmaniDepartments of Physical Therapy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35209, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1301-5522
Serge BrandDepartments of Physical Therapy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35209, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2175-2765
Arak University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversity of Basel · CHHamedan University of Medical Sciences · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To avoid spreading the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), health authorities have forced people to reorganize their working and private lives and to avoid open and public spaces as much as possible. This has also been the case for women both during pregnancy and after delivery. Here, we investigated the associations between subjective beliefs in risk of infections and health anxiety, depression, stress, and other perinatal dimensions. To this end, we assessed 103 women (mean age: 28.57 years) during pregnancy and after delivery. They completed a series of questionnaires covering sociodemographic information, perinatal information, health anxiety, post-partum depression, and stress. Sixty-six participants (64.1%) were in the pre-partum stage, and 37 (35.9%) were post-partum. Health anxiety was unrelated to depression or stress. Knowing and being close to infected people was associated with higher health anxiety. Strict following of the safety recommendations was associated with greater health anxiety, depression, and stress. Postponing or cancelling routine medical check appointments was observed among participants with high health anxiety scores. Higher illness severity, overall health anxiety scores, and lower stress scores predicted those participants who postponed or cancelled their routine medical check appointments. Post-partum stage and a larger number of children were associated with higher stress scores, but not with depression or stress. The results are of practical and clinical importance; it appears that health anxiety, which is to say fear of getting infected with COVID-19 during pregnancy or at the post-partum stage, was associated with postponing or cancelling routine medical check appointments, but not with stress or depression.

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Appointments and SchedulesAdultAnxietyBetacoronavirusChildCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19DepressionFemaleHumansNo-Show PatientsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralPregnancyPregnant PeopleSARS-CoV-2COVID-19depressionhealth anxietyperinatal carepregnancystress

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PMID33182388
PMCPMC7664877
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