1. Resilience and psychological distress in pregnant women during quarantine due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Spain: a multicentre cross-sectional online survey
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Ernesto González-Mesa, Manuel Sánchez-Prieto, Carmen Aisha Butrón Hinojo, Ana Bueno Moral, José Alcolea Santiago, Pluvio J. Coronado Martín, Jose Eduardo Arjona Bernal, Rafael Sánchez-Borrego, Antonio Olvera Perdigones, Daniel María Lubián López, Marta Casaus Fernández, Virginia Guerra Vilches, Andrés Cuevas Palomino, Jesús Presa Lorite, Begoña Rodríguez Rodríguez, and María Fasero Laiz
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Adult ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Cross-sectional study ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Anxiety ,Psychological Distress ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,law ,Pregnancy ,Environmental health ,Quarantine ,Medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,media_common ,030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine ,business.industry ,Depression ,Obstetrics and Gynecology ,Outbreak ,COVID-19 ,Resilience, Psychological ,medicine.disease ,Pregnancy Complications ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Clinical Psychology ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Reproductive Medicine ,Spain ,Female ,Psychological resilience ,Pregnant Women ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Perinatal Depression - Abstract
To examine the prevalence of depressive and anxiety symptoms and the corresponding risk factors among pregnant women during the confinement due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Spain.Between 15 April and 14 May 2020, a multicentre cross-sectional survey was performed to study depression, anxiety and resilience in a sample of Spanish pregnant women during the lockdown set up by the Government in response to COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. We designed an anonymous online self-administered questionnaire (https://bit.ly/34RRpq1) that included the Spanish validated versions of the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale (EPDS), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the Connor-Davidson Resilience 10-items Scale (CD-RISC-10).A total of 514 pregnant women completed the survey. 72.8% had been confined40 days and 27.2% between 41 and 60 days. 182 (35.4%) participants scored over 10, with 21.3% scoring over 13 (75th Percentile) in depressive symptoms rates. We found high trait and anxiety scores, with 223 (43.4%) and 227 (44.2%) pregnant women scoring over the trait and state mean scores. Neither depression, anxiety or resilience levels showed any significant correlation with the length of confinement. We found low CD-RISC-10 scores.We found a high prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms during the quarantine, although we did not find an increased prevalence of psychological distress according to length of home confinement. Resilience correlated negatively with depression and anxiety.
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- 2021