Pregnancy during the pandemic: the impact of COVID-19-related stress on risk for prenatal depression.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pregnant women may be especially susceptible to negative events (i.e. adversity) related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and negative affective responses to these events (i.e. stress). We examined the latent structure of stress and adversity related to the COVID-19 pandemic among pregnant women, potential antecedents of COVID-19-related stress and adversity in this population, and associations with prenatal depressive symptoms.

Method

We surveyed 725 pregnant women residing in the San Francisco Bay Area in March-May 2020, 343 of whom provided addresses that were geocoded and matched by census tract to measures of community-level risk. We compared their self-reported depressive symptoms to women matched on demographic factors and history of ment

SUBMITTER: King LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8047399 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature