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Vol. 156. Issue 4.
Pages 172-176 (February 2021)
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Vol. 156. Issue 4.
Pages 172-176 (February 2021)
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Confinement variables by COVID-19 predictors of anxious and depressive symptoms in pregnant women
Variables del confinamiento por COVID-19 predictoras de sintomatología ansiosa y depresiva en mujeres embarazadas
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Borja Romero-Gonzaleza,b, Jose A. Puertas-Gonzaleza,b, Carolina Mariño-Narvaeza,
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, Maria Isabel Peralta-Ramireza,b
a Centro de Investigación Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento (CIMCYC), Granada, Spain
b Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológicos de la Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
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Table 1. Sociodemographic variables, obstetric history, lockdown variables and psychological variables in the sample.
Table 2. Hierarchical linear regression analysis with anxiety and depressive symptoms as dependent variables.
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Abstract
Background and objectives

The appearance of a highly contagious disease forced the confinement of the population in almost all parts of the world, causing an increase in psychological problems, with pregnant women being a particularly vulnerable group to suffer negative consequences. The aim of this research was to check which confinement or psychological stress variables are related to the increase of anxious and depressive symptoms in pregnant women, as a consequence of the pandemic caused by the COVID-19.

Materials and methods

The sample was composed of 131 pregnant women who experienced the confinement imposed by the Government of Spain on March 14, 2020. Sociodemographic, obstetric, confinement related and psychological variables were collected.

Results

Perceived stress, pregnancy-specific stress, as well as insomnia are predictive variables in most anxious (obsessions and compulsions, anxiety and phobic anxiety) and depressive symptoms related to COVID-19.

Conclusions

It is important to focus future psychological interventions in this population on stress control and sleep monitoring, since these variables influence the increase of anxiety and depression.

Keywords:
COVID-19
Pregnancy
Anxiety
Depression
Stress
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Antecedentes y objetivos

La aparición de una enfermedad altamente contagiosa obligó a confinar a la población en casi todo el mundo, ocasionando el aumento de problemática psicológica, siendo las mujeres embarazadas un grupo especialmente vulnerable a sufrir consecuencias negativas. El objetivo de esta investigación fue comprobar qué variables de confinamiento o estrés psicológico están relacionadas con el aumento de la sintomatología ansiosa y depresiva en mujeres embarazadas, como consecuencia de la pandemia ocasionada por la COVID-19.

Materiales y métodos

La muestra estuvo compuesta por 131 mujeres embarazadas que vivieron el confinamiento impuesto por el Gobierno de España el 14 de marzo de 2020. Se recogieron variables sociodemográficas, obstétricas, relacionadas con el confinamiento y variables psicológicas.

Resultados

El estrés percibido, estrés específico del embarazo, así como el insomnio son variables predictoras en la mayoría de síntomas ansiosos (obsesiones y compulsiones, ansiedad y ansiedad fóbica) y depresivos relacionados con la COVID-19.

Conclusiones

Es importante destinar futuras intervenciones psicológicas en esta población al control del estrés y monitorización del sueño, ya que estas variables influyen en el incremento de ansiedad y depresión.

Palabras clave:
COVID-19
Embarazo
Ansiedad
Depresión
Estrés

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