Pregnant women's concerns and antenatal care during COVID-19 lock-down of the Danish society
| Autor: | Gritt Overbeck, Anette Hauskov Graungaard, Ida Scheel Rasmussen, Julie Høgsgaard Andersen, Ruth Kirk Ertmann, jakob kragstrup, Philip Wilson |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Overbeck, G, Graungaard, A H, Rasmussen, I S, Andersen, J H, Ertmann, R K, Kragstrup, J & Wilson, P 2020, ' Pregnant women's concerns and antenatal care during COVID-19 lock-down of the Danish society ', Danish Medical Journal, vol. 67, no. 12, 06200449 . < https://ugeskriftet.dk/dmj/pregnant-womens-concerns-and-antenatal-care-during-covid-19-lock-down-danish-society > University of Copenhagen |
| Popis: | INTRODUCTION: Pandemics are known to cause stress and anxiety in pregnant women. During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown of the Danish society, pregnant women were considered to be at increased risk, and access to antenatal care changed.METHODS: On 8 April 2020A, a questionnaire was sent to 332 pregnant women previously sampled by general practitioners in two Danish regions. The women were contacted via secured e-mail (e-Boks), and questionnaires were returned until 6 May.RESULTS: The questionnaire was returned by 257 women (77%). More than half believed that they were at a high risk of infection with COVID-19, and a third of the women were concerned about the risk of serious disease - especially for their unborn child. Almost 90% isolated at home most of the time. The majority were worried about possible consequences of the pandemic for antenatal care, but very few had actually missed a scheduled preventive consultation with their general practitioner, and only 15% had missed an appointment with their midwife. The majority of the women preferred normal consultations and found no added safety in shifting the consultation from the normal clinical setting.CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown have had a major impact on Danish pregnant women. Even so, concerns were more focused on access to care than on the risk of COVID-19 infection. Contacts with the antenatal healthcare system have only been moderately affected. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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