Post-partum Women's Anxiety and Parenting Stress: Home-Visiting Protective Effect During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a particularly adverse and stressful environment for expecting mothers, possibly enhancing feelings of anxiety and parenting stress. The present work assesses mothers' anxiety levels at delivery and parenting stress after 3 months as moderated by home-visiting sessions.

Methods

Women (n = 177) in their second or third trimester of pregnancy during the COVID-19 lockdown were enrolled in northern Italy and split into those who did and did not receive home visits. After 3 months, the association between anxiety at delivery and parenting stress was assessed with bivariate correlations in the whole sample and comparing the two groups.

Results

Higher anxiety at birth correlated with greater perceived stress after 3 months. Mother

SUBMITTER: Roberti E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9510513 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature