The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought about unprecedented social, economic and mental-health challenges, especially for vulnerable populations such as pregnant and post-partum females. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the relations between the fear of COVID-19 and postnatal depression symptoms.
This is a multicenter prospective cohort study of childbearing women during COVID-19.
Participants completed a comprehensive online questionnaire including demographic,
socioeconomic, obstetric, and postnatal mental-health questionnaires. Data were verified with
each center's perinatal database and information regarding physiological stress during
pregnancy/birth was also collected. Fear of COVID-19 was evaluated using the validated Fear
of COVID-19 Scale and postnatal depression was evaluated using the EPDS. Pre-existing
maternal disability was defined as prior physiological or psychological chronic health
condition.
Inclusion Criteria:
- women who delivered during the Covid-19 pandemic at the site, since 01-March-2020
Exclusion Criteria:
- women age 18 and below
- Gestational age under 34 weeks
- Intra Uterine Fetal Demise
- Ante-partum Fetal Demise
- Maternal post partum death
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hillel-Yaffe Medical Center
Hadera, Israel
Rinat Gabbay-Benziv, MD, Principal Investigator
Hillel Yaffe Medical Center