Anxiety and Depression Among Pregnant Women During COVID-19 Pandemic

Assiut University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Covid19

Treatments: Other: State-trait anxiety inventory scale; Other: Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EDPS)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04558749

ADCOVID

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pregnancy and early parenthood are life changing periods characterized by intense emotions and a high vulnerability to emotional problems. Overall 10 - 20 % of pregnant women and women in early postpartum period suffer from mental health problems.

In the first months of 2020 , pregnant and breastfeeding women have also needed to face the COVID19 pandemic including the exceptional quarantine measures that have disturbed private and professional life . In addition to the fear of infection , these measures might have negatively impacted the emotional wellbeing of women . As depressive symptoms and anxiety in the pre and peripartum period have been associated with adverse maternal , neonatal and infant outcomes , the psychological impact of COVID19 , and its associated quarantine measures , on pregnant women and new mothers is cause for concern

Enrollment: 238 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All pregnant women presented to the Antenatal care clinic, will be included in the study irrespective of the gestational age of the pregnancy

Exclusion criteria

Women previously diagnosed with any psychiatric disorder.

Trial design

238 participants in 1 patient group

Study group

Description:

The study population comprised women that will attend their routine visit to the antenatal clinic. The study population will be recruited by using simple random sampling method after verbal consent will be obtained. Resident in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology who will be trained to administer the questionnaire will interview women. Face masks will be provided to the study population during the process of data collection.

Treatment:

Other: Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EDPS)

Other: State-trait anxiety inventory scale