Associations between COVID-19 lockdown and post-lockdown on the mental health of pregnant women, postpartum women and their partners from the Queensland family cohort prospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are very few developed countries where physical isolation and low community transmission has been reported for COVID-19 but this has been the experience of Australia. The impact of physical isolation combined with low disease transmission on the mental health of pregnant women is currently unknown and there have been no studies examining the psychological experience for partners of pregnant women during lockdown. The aim of the current study was to examine the impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020 and post lockdown from August 2020 on the mental health of pregnant women or postpartum women and their partners.

Methods

Pregnant women and their partners were prospectively recruited to the study before 24 weeks gestation and completed various quest

SUBMITTER: Clifton VL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9166205 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature