Miguel Sandonis, Joaquín Temprado, Alina Hernández-Fleury, Gemma Parramón-Puig, María Emilia Dip, Josep Antoni Ramos-Quiroga, Nerea Maiz, Elena Carreras, Maia Brik
To explore the effects of antenatal anxiety on fetal growth an observational cohort study was performed, including a cohort of 204 women with singleton pregnancies during the strict lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Psychosocial factors, maternal demographics, obstetric outcomes, social support (Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey, MOS-SSS), and symptoms of anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, STAIs and STAIt) and depression (Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale, EPDS) were studied as potential predictors of low birth weight...
December 2023: Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology