Elevated risk for obsessive-compulsive symptoms in women pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a public mental health crisis with many people experiencing new or worsening anxiety. Fear of contagion and the lack of predictability/control in daily life increased the risk for problems such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in the general population. Pregnant women may be particularly vulnerable to such pandemic-related stressors yet the prevalence of OC symptoms in this population during the pandemic remains unknown. We examined the prevalence of OC symptoms in a sample of 4451 pregnant women in the USA, recruited via targeted online methods at the start of the pandemic. Participants completed self-report measures including the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised and the Pandemic-Related Pregnancy Stress Scale. Clinically significant OC symptom

SUBMITTER: Mahaffey BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8282770 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature