Document Type
Honors Thesis
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic created increased psychological vulnerability across the globe through isolation, fear of infection, and misinformation from various sources, including social media. Women giving birth during the pandemic, therefore, may be extremely vulnerable psychologically. Per the World Health Organization, the years 2020 to mid 2021were designated as an intense time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the objective of this secondary analysis was to compare depression scores among women giving birth during these intense years and women giving birth before 2020. However, due to a small window of time and sample size, statistical analysis failed to find a correlation between depression scores and time of birth. Of importance, however, both (higher) age v and (lower) gestational age were related to COVID time of birth suggesting the stress of the situation, especially to older women. Findings warrant research attention to the potential vulnerability of childbearing women impacted by ongoing COVID.
Disciplines
Maternal, Child Health and Neonatal Nursing
Publication Date
5-2025
Language
English
Faculty Mentor of Honors Project
Cheryl Anderson
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Berney, Amanda A., "Maternal Depression and COVID-19: A Secondary Analysis Comparing Postnatal Depression Rates During and Before the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2025). 2025 Spring Honors Capstone Projects. 11.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/honors_spring2025/11