Pregnancy during COVID-19: social contact patterns and vaccine coverage of pregnant women from CoMix in 19 European countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence and advice for pregnant women evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. We studied social contact behaviour and vaccine uptake in pregnant women between March 2020 and September 2021 in 19 European countries.

Methods

In each country, repeated online survey data were collected from a panel of nationally-representative participants. We calculated the adjusted mean number of contacts reported with an individual-level generalized additive mixed model, modelled using the negative binomial distribution and a log link function. Mean proportion of people in isolation or quarantine, and vaccination coverage by pregnancy status and gender were calculated using a clustered bootstrap.

Findings

We recorded 4,129 observations from 1,041 pregnant women, and 115,359 o

SUBMITTER: Wong KLM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9547635 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature