Healio (3/30, Gramigna) reports, “Rates of maternal depression and anxiety have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with prior estimates,” investigators concluded in a study that analyzed “data of 1,301 women who completed a COVID-19 impact survey as part of a pregnancy cohort in Canada between May 20, 2020, and July 15, 2020.” Next, the study team “compared symptoms of maternal depression and anxiety during the pandemic with three prior estimates obtained at three-, five- and eight-year timepoints between April 2012 and October 2019.” The findings of the “longitudinal analysis” were published online March 24 in The Lancet Psychiatry.
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— “Anxiety, depression have increased among mothers since onset of COVID-19 pandemic “Joe Gramigna, Healio, March 30, 2021