Psychological status of postpartum women under the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan

Abstract

Under the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) pandemic, limitations are known to cause some psychosocial problems. We compared the results of mental screening of the postpartum women conducted during the COVID-19 epidemic with those at the same period last year. Based on the results, the worse mother-infant bonding was suspected at 1 month after birth under the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords:

• COVID-19 pandemic
• mother-infant bonding
• one month after birth
• Japan

Ethical approval

Patients’ informed consent for publication of this report was obtained.

Acknowledgement

The author declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work. The author has no other support or funding to report.

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