A two-item screening of maternal or infant perceived life threat during childbirth prospectively associated with childbirth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms up to six …

L Gilbert, V Sandoz, C Deforges, A Horsch - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Objective This study investigated prospective relationships between the perception of threat
to one's own life or to that of one's infant during childbirth and maternal childbirth-related …

Maternal prenatal social contact during the COVID-19 pandemic predicts infant birth weight

AR Morris, PE Sellery, V Truong, D Jeyasingh… - Early Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Social connectedness and mental health have been associated with infant birth
weight, and both were compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic. Aims We sought to …

Anxiety trajectories from pregnancy to one-year postpartum and their contributors during the COVID-19 pandemic

H Preis, W Wang, I St. Denis, W Zhu… - … of Reproductive and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Anxiety in the peripartum period (pregnancy through one-year postpartum) has
negative impacts on mothers and infants. During the COVID-19 pandemic, high rates of …