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Unplanned Pregnancy and Depressive Symptoms during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2022; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 20; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/ijerph20010652

1661-7827

Gilberto Assunção Costa Júnior, Adriana Sousa Rêgo, Andressa Pestana Brito, Poliana da Silva Rêgo Furtado, Thayla Thais Jatahy Pereira, Lucas Frota Beckman, Yuri Alfredo Araújo Mendonça, Cristina Nitz da Cruz, Magali Kelli Nitz, Márcia Rodrigues Veras Batista, Márcio Anderson Sousa Nunes, Janaína Maiana Abreu Barbosa, José Márcio Soares Leite, Ângela Falcai, Marcos Antônio Barbosa Pacheco, Cristina Maria Douat Loyola, Maria Raimunda Chagas Silva, Wellyson da Cunha Araújo Firmo, Flor de Maria Araújo Mendonça Silva,

COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction

This is a cross-sectional study conducted with pregnant women who underwent prenatal care at basic health units in São Luís City, Maranhão State, Brazil. The authors used a semistructured questionnaire to assess the socioeconomic, demographic, and clinical characteristics of pregnant women as well as the Edinburgh Scale to investigate depressive symptoms. In order to assess the association between the explanatory variable and the outcome variable, Poisson logistic regression was performed with statistical significance at p < 0.05. A total of 205 women were interviewed, most aged between 18 and 29 years (66.83%). Of this total, 74.63% had not planned their pregnancy and 26.67% had depressive symptoms. The variables unplanned pregnancy (PR = 1.41; CI = 0.99−2.00; p = 0.05) and not undergoing psychological counseling (PR = 1.42; CI = 0.51−0.83; p ≤ 0.01) correlated with depressive symptoms during pregnancy. It is thus possible to link the variables unplanned pregnancy (p > 0.05) and not undergoing psychological counseling (p = 0.001) to depression. Therefore, it is important to monitor the mental health of pregnant women, especially in situations of vulnerability.