Study explores link between prenatal stress during COVID-19 pandemic and negative neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants NUFeinbergMed COVID19 SARSCoV2 Coronavirus Pandemic PrenatalStress
By Neha MathurSep 12 2022Reviewed by Aimee Molineux In a recent study published in the journal Infancy, researchers pursued evidence of prenatal stress during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, which could have negatively affected infants.
About the study In the present study, researchers used the ecological momentary assessment method to gather intensive stress data via text messages. This data better captured the gestational experience than retrospective questions about past stress measured at a single time point. For stress lability, the researchers employed the Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised—Very Short Form , focusing on the negative affect dimension, consisting of 12 items from three subscales: Sadness, Distress to Limitations, and Fear. The mother completed the IBQ-R-VSF at the three-month assessment using a seven-point scale ranging from one to seven, with one indicating 'never' to seven indicating 'always'.
The primary study finding was that the baseline stress did not differ depending on whether mothers completed the EMA before or during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clearly, the EMA timing did not correlate with the average stress and stress lability. Several prior studies have found significant effects of COVID-19 on mental health; hence, this was an unexpected finding. A possible explanation could be that the current study population was highly educated, middle to upper-class women.
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