Conclusion High percentages of pregnant women had symptoms of depression or anxiety, suggesting an urgent need to screen and treat mental health conditions among pregnant women during the pandemic. Pandemic-related risks and protective factors are relevant to developing tailored interventions to address ...
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Pregnant women who lived in Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic, were not more anxious or depressed compared to pregnant women in other regions during the COVID-19 epidemic. Furthermore, the mental health status of pregnant women with COVID-19 was not more severe....
China has made remarkable strides in women's health. To date, nearly 200 million women have benefited from cervical and breast cancer screenings. Last year, approximately 98.2 percent of pregnant women had prenatal exams and 99.95 percent gave birth in hospitals. The country's maternal mortality ...
For many psychiatric illnesses, the onset of symptoms begins during the late teens to the early thirties [1]. This is especially concerning in women, as it coincides with the childbearing years. Pregnancy was once thought to be protective of psychiatric illness. However, as the recent explosion...
CONCLUSIONS: The mental health of pregnant women may depend on socio-economic factors and personality traits. Monitoring these factors would enable one to assess the degree of risk for the deterioration of the mental health during pregnancy.
Unresolved mental health concerns during pregnancy can further strain and negatively impact marital relationships [36, 37]. However, building resilience can improve marital harmony by decreasing the detrimental effects of depression and enhancing the mental well-being of pregnant women [10]. Interventions...
Chan School of Public Health found that over 70% of pregnant and postpartum women surveyed reported "clinically significant depression or anxiety," and over 40% "screened positive for post-traumatic stress disorder.” In this undated file photo, a pregnant woman places a face mask on her ...
Women with serious mental illness (SMI) who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy face gaps in information, support and resources in mental health services, new research suggests. The findings,publishedApril 1 in the peer-reviewed journalHealth Affairs, highlight the need to integratepregnancyand par...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected Canadian women's mental health both during pregnancy and in the postpartum period, confirms the CONCEPTION study led by Anick Bérard, researcher at CHU Sainte-Justine and professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Uni