ArticleJAMA psychiatry2022
Maternal Mental Health and Infant Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- COVID-19 mothers' mother-baby bonding, feeding practices, postnatal care experiences in Qatar: A mixed-methods approach.European journal of midwifery · 2025Article
- The role of government assistance, housing, and employment on postpartum maternal health across income and race: a mixed methods study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Global, regional, and national burden of preterm birth, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis from the global burden of disease study 2021.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Positive Autism Screening Rates in Toddlers Born During the COVID-19 Pandemic.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Viral infections in pregnancy and impact on offspring neurodevelopment: mechanisms and lessons learned.Pediatric research · 2024Review
- PERSPECTIVE: Implications of Recent Health Policies for Women's Reproductive Mental Health.The journal of mental health policy and economics · 2024Article
- Recreating the village: the patient experience with a hybrid model of Group Perinatal Care (GPPC) in an academic family health team.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- Early childhood psychopathology and parental mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: the effects of pandemic restrictions on 0- to 3-year-olds.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Lessons learned in caring for newborns from one viral outbreak to the next.Pediatric research · 2024Article
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Abstract
Importance: The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted an unprecedented need to rapidly investigate the potential consequences for maternal mental health, infant and child development, and the mother-infant relationship. Observations: Globally, the mental health of pregnant and postpartum individuals has worsened during the pandemic regardless of infection status, and these concerning changes have disproportionally affected racial and ethnic minoritized people from underserved populations. Early indicators of infant neurobehavioral outcomes suggest that while in utero exposure to a maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection is likely negligible, limited data are available regarding the neurodevelopmental consequences for the generation of infants born during the pandemic. High maternal depression and grief during the COVID-19 pandemic are associated with lower levels of self-reported maternal-infant bonding. Yet nearly all published reports of child neurodevelopmental outcomes and dyadic functioning in the context of the pandemic rely on self-reported and parent-reported measures, which are subject to bias. Conclusions and Relevance: In the context of prior research, and considering the paucity of research on infant neurodevelopment following prenatal SARS-CoV-2 exposure and birth during the pandemic, robust scientific investigation is needed to detect indicators of compromised early outcomes that could inform widespread assessment and accessible intervention. We simultaneously caution against reflexive apprehension regarding the generation of children born during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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