The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic and Social Restrictions on Depression Rates and Maternal Attachment in Immediate Postpartum Women: a Preliminary Study.
Psychiatr Q
; 92(2): 675-682, 2021 06.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-743745
ABSTRACT
We aimed to evaluate the postpartum depression rates and maternal-infant bonding status among immediate postpartum women, whose last trimester overlapped with the lockdowns and who gave birth in a tertiary care center which had strong hospital restrictions due to serving also for COVID-19 patients, in the capital of Turkey. The low-risk term pregnant women who gave birth were given the surveys Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale (EPDS) and Maternal Attachment Inventory (MAI) within 48 h after birth. A total of 223 women were recruited. The median score obtained from the EPDS was 7 (7) and 33 (14.7%) of the women were determined to have a risk for postpartum depression. The median scores of the EPDS inventory of depressive women were 15 (3). The median MAI score of 223 women was 100 (26); and the MAI scores of women with depression were significantly lower than the controls [73 (39) vs. 101 (18) respectively, p < 0.001]. Evaluation of the factors that affect the psychological status of pregnant and postpartum women will lead the healthcare system to improve the implementations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Depression, Postpartum
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COVID-19
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Object Attachment
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Young adult
Language:
English
Journal:
Psychiatr Q
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S11126-020-09843-1
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