Journal
ARCHIVES OF WOMENS MENTAL HEALTH
Volume 23, Issue 6, Pages 767-773Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-020-01075-3
Keywords
COVID-19; Depression; EPDS; Post-partum
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- Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel
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The aim of the current study was to assess the risk for post-partum depression among women delivering during the COVID-19 pandemic as compared to the risk among women delivering before the COVID-19 pandemic. A cohort study was performed among women delivering singletons at term which were recruited in the maternity wards of the Soroka University Medical Center. Recruitment was done during the COVID-19 strict isolation period (March 18 and April 29, 2020). Women delivering during the COVID-19 pandemic completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), and the results were compared to women delivering at the same medical center before the COVID-19 pandemic. Multivariable logistic regression models were constructed to control for potential confounders. A total of 223 women who delivered during the COVID-19 strict isolation period were recruited. Women delivering during the COVID-19 pandemic hadlowerrisk of having a high (> 10) or very high (>= 13) EPDS score as compared with women delivering before the COVID-19 pandemic (16.7% vs 31.3%,p = 0.002, and 6.8% vs 15.2%,p = 0.014, for EPDS >= 10 and EPDS >= 13, respectively). These results remained similar in the multivariable logistic regression models, for both EPDS score >= 10 and EPDS score >= 13, while controlling for maternal age, ethnicity, marital status, and adverse pregnancy outcomes (adjusted OR 0.4, 95% CI 0.23-0.70,p = 0.001 and adjusted OR 0.3, 95% CI 0.15-0.74,p = 0.007 for EPDS score > 10 and > 13, respectively). In our population, delivering during the COVID-19 pandemic was independently associated withlowerrisk of post-partum depression.
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