151. COVID-19-related anxiety and concerns expressed by pregnant and postpartum women—a survey among obstetricians.
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Nanjundaswamy, Madhuri H., Shiva, Lakshmi, Desai, Geetha, Ganjekar, Sundarnag, Kishore, Thomas, Ram, Uma, Satyanarayana, Veena, Thippeswamy, Harish, and Chandra, Prabha S.
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ANXIETY , *INFECTIOUS disease transmission , *MATERNAL health services , *OBSTETRICS , *PREGNANCY & psychology , *SAFETY , *SURVEYS , *TELEMEDICINE , *SOCIAL media , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *COVID-19 pandemic - Abstract
This paper from India describes anxieties that pregnant and postpartum women reported to obstetricians during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the 118 obstetricians who responded to an online survey, most had been contacted for concerns about hospital visits (72.65%), methods of protection (60.17%), the safety of the infant (52.14%), anxieties related to social media messages (40.68%) and contracting the infection (39.83%). Obstetricians felt the need for resources such as videos, websites and counselling skills to handle COVID-related anxiety among perinatal women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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