Trends in maternal mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic-evidence from Zambia.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has increased social and emotional stressors globally, increasing mental health concerns and the risk of psychiatric illness worldwide. To date, relatively little is known about the impact of the pandemic on vulnerable groups such as women and children in low-resourced settings who generally have limited access to mental health care. We explore two rounds of data collected as part of an ongoing trial of early childhood development to assess mental health distress among mothers of children under 5-years-old living in two rural areas of Zambia during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined the prevalence of mental health distress among a cohort of 1105 mothers using the World Health Organization's Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemi

SUBMITTER: Falgas-Bague I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9897519 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature