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The postpartum period during the COVID-19 pandemic: investigating Turkish women’s postpartum support and postpartum-specific anxiety

  • Merve Kochan , Ayse Deliktas Demirci und Kamile Kabukcuoglu EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 7. Dezember 2021
Journal of Perinatal Medicine
Aus der Zeitschrift Journal of Perinatal Medicine Band 50 Heft 3

Abstract

Objectives

This study aimed to examine how Turkish women were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the postpartum period in terms of postpartum support and anxiety variables.

Methods

The study was conducted with 130 women who gave birth during the COVID-19 period. Data were collected online using a personal information form, Postpartum Support Scale and Postpartum Specific Anxiety Scale. Descriptive statistics were used, with Kruskal–Wallis and regression analysis performed.

Results

All postpartum women stated that they were affected negatively by COVID-19. The most common issues described were feeling alone (25.51%), having economic difficulties (15.5%) and experiencing difficulties accessing health services (21.7%). The mean Postpartum Support Scale score was 102.43 ± 27.67, while the mean Postpartum Specific Anxiety Scale score was 188.07 ± 96.71. COVID-19 exposure level had a significant effect on postpartum-specific anxiety (p=0.00). The variables of having a problem during pregnancy (p=0.006), having a baby willingly (p=0.007), and partner’s educational status significantly predicted the degree of being affected by COVID-19 (p=0.025). The degree to which COVID-19 affected the women was determined by having problems during pregnancy, having a baby willingly, and a highly educated partner.

Conclusions

These variables may inform a resource to empower postpartum women during COVID-19. Healthcare systems need to be organised considering pandemic conditions to provide increased postpartum support, evaluate psychological health, deliver healthcare services, and consider pregnancy periods.

Keywords: anxiety; COVID-19; postpartum period; psychosocial health; support
Corresponding author: Kamile Kabukcuoglu, Professor, PhD, RN, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Akdeniz University, Dumlupınar Bulvarı, 07058, Antalya, Turkey, Phone: +905057970464, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

The authors would particularly like to thank all women who volunteered to participate in this study.

  1. Research funding: None declared.

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: The author declares that he has no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.

  5. Ethical approval: Research involving human subjects complied with all relevant national regulations, institutional policies and is in accordance with the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration (as revised in 2013), and has been approved by the authors’ Institutional Review Board (Approval number: 523).

  6. Data availability: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Received: 2021-05-19
Accepted: 2021-11-23
Published Online: 2021-12-07
Published in Print: 2022-03-28

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  17. Original Articles – Neonates
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  23. Short Communication
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  25. Letter to the Editors
  26. Comment on Abdel Wahab et al.: A randomized controlled trial of two-doses of vaginal progesterone 400 vs. 200 mg for prevention of preterm labor in twin gestations
  27. Re: Comment on Abdel Wahab et al.: A randomized controlled trial of two-doses of vaginal progesterone 400 vs. 200 mg for prevention of preterm labor in twin gestations
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  29. Re: SARS-CoV-2 behavior, through the eyes of a perinatologist?
https://doi.org/10.1515/jpm-2021-0238
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
anxiety; COVID-19; postpartum period; psychosocial health; support

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Corner of Academy
  3. Cost of providing cell-free DNA screening for Down syndrome in Finland using different strategies
  4. Adverse perinatal outcomes following the prenatal diagnosis of isolated single umbilical artery in singleton pregnancies: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  5. Original Articles – Obstetrics
  6. Perinatal outcomes in women with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection: comparison with contemporary and matched pre-COVID-19 controls
  7. The postpartum period during the COVID-19 pandemic: investigating Turkish women’s postpartum support and postpartum-specific anxiety
  8. First-line noninvasive management of cytomegalovirus primary infection in pregnancy
  9. Ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of clinically significant placenta accreta spectrum disorders
  10. Improved management of placenta accreta spectrum disorders: experience from a single institution
  11. A randomized controlled trial of two-doses of vaginal progesterone 400 vs. 200 mg for prevention of preterm labor in twin gestations
  12. The impact of preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy on prenatal screening
  13. Original Articles – Fetus
  14. Myocardial deformation analysis in late-onset small-for-gestational-age and growth-restricted fetuses using two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography: a prospective cohort study
  15. HDlive Flow Silhouette with spatiotemporal image correlation for assessment of fetal cardiac structures at 12 to 14 + 6 weeks of gestation
  16. Umbilical artery pulsatility index and half-peak systolic velocity in second- and third-trimester fetuses with trisomy 18 and 13
  17. Original Articles – Neonates
  18. Pulmonary hypertension in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: risk factors, mortality and duration of hospitalisation
  19. Outcomes from birth to 6 months of publicly insured infants born to mothers with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in the United States
  20. Placental findings are not associated with neurodevelopmental outcome in neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy – an 11-year single-center experience
  21. High frequency band limits in spectral analysis of heart rate variability in preterm infants
  22. Bacterial DNA detection in very preterm infants assessed for risk of early onset sepsis
  23. Short Communication
  24. Healthcare workers’ attitudes about vaccination of pregnant women and those wishing to become pregnant
  25. Letter to the Editors
  26. Comment on Abdel Wahab et al.: A randomized controlled trial of two-doses of vaginal progesterone 400 vs. 200 mg for prevention of preterm labor in twin gestations
  27. Re: Comment on Abdel Wahab et al.: A randomized controlled trial of two-doses of vaginal progesterone 400 vs. 200 mg for prevention of preterm labor in twin gestations
  28. SARS-CoV-2 behavior, through the eyes of a perinatologist?
  29. Re: SARS-CoV-2 behavior, through the eyes of a perinatologist?
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