ArticleArchives of women's mental health2021
Longitudinal study on prenatal depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- The prevalence of mental ill-health in women during pregnancy and after childbirth during the Covid-19 pandemic: a systematic review and Meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Pooled it
- Association of Mandatory COVID-19 Lockdown Exposure with Increased Maternal Prenatal Smoking and Reduced Fetal Head Growth: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Maternal and child health journal · 2026Article
- Fetal programming of infant temperament: An examination of prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Polysocial risk factors and trajectories of antenatal moderate-to-severe depressive symptoms: a retrospective cohort study in Shenzhen, China.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Prenatal Mental Health and Its Stress-Process Mechanisms During a Pandemic Lockdown: A Moderated Parallel Mediation Model.Psychiatry investigation · 2025Article
- Depression and anxiety in Chinese pregnant women in the mid-phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Article
- When pregnancy and pandemic coincide: changes in stress and anxiety over the course of pregnancy.Journal of reproductive and infant psychology · 2024Article
- Maternal-prenatal stress and depression predict infant temperament during the COVID-19 pandemic.Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- Prevalence and associated factors of prenatal depression in pregnant Korean women during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.Korean journal of women health nursing · 2023Article
- Comparing Anxiety Levels during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Mothers of Children with and without Neurodevelopmental Disorders.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Pregnant in a Pandemic: Connecting Perceptions of Uplifts and Hassles to Mental Health.Journal of health psychology · 2023Article
- Pregnancy and mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia: A nationwide cross-sectional study.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2023Article
- More than a year of pandemic: Longitudinal assessment of anxiety and depressive symptoms in the argentine general population during the COVID-19 outbreak.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2022Article
- The Pandemial babies: effects of maternal stress on temperament of babies gestated and born during the pandemic.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Self-reported mental health status of pregnant women in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional survey.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Anxiety and depression among women with COVID-19 infection during childbirth-experience from a tertiary care academic center.AJOG global reports · 2022Article
- Maternal mental health during COVID-19 pandemic outbreak: A cross-sectional comparative study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Maternal Anxiety and Its Associated Factors During the First and Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Serbia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Psychology research and behavior management · 2022Article
- Stress, Coping, and Psychiatric Symptoms in Pregnant Women in Outpatient Care During the 2021 Second-Wave COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Maternal anxiety, exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic and socioemotional development of offspring.Journal of applied developmental psychologyArticle
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Abstract
Several studies have reported the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic context on mental health. Given that pregnant women constitute a vulnerable group, they may be at greater risk for developing psychopathological symptoms due to the confinement. The current study aimed to longitudinally analyze the presence and evolution of indicators of depression and anxiety in pregnant and non-pregnant women, and to identify the differential effects of social isolation or distancing measures on these groups. Participants were 105 pregnant and 105 non-pregnant Argentine adult women. They completed the Beck Depression Inventory-II, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and closed-ended questions on sociodemographic factors, at four different times. Results showed a progressive increase in anxiety and depressive symptoms in the first 50 days of confinement in both groups, and a slight decrease after approximately 150 days. Pregnant women presented a more pronounced initial increase in symptoms, and a weaker decrease at the last wave, compared to the non-pregnant. Results suggest that the pandemic context produces a moderate negative early response and that the initial flexibilizations of sanitary measures (50 days) did not slow down the progression of symptoms (even less in pregnant women). In conclusion, being pregnant could be an extra risk factor for the development of psychopathological symptoms during this pandemic. The particular vulnerability of pregnant women and the associated potential negative effects both on them and on their offspring underline the importance of perinatal health policies aimed at prevention and treatment of possible future consequences.
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