Fertility patients have lower uneasiness levels than pregnant ladies during COVID-19: Study ANI | Updated: Mar 14, 2021 20:01 IST
Tokyo [Japan], March 14 (ANI): An online study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders Reports found that pregnant women had higher levels of anxiety compared to fertility patients during the Covid pandemic. The pandemic has changed the social environments of pregnant women and fertility patients, says Tohoku University clinical psychologist Koubon Wakashima.
For example, restrictions in Japan meant that pregnant women have been unable to participate in group parenting classes or travel to their parents homes to receive traditional childbirth assistance. Medical institutions in the country reported fewer women accessing infertility treatments.
Pregnant women in Japan had higher levels of anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic
Pregnant women in Japan who responded to an online survey early in the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated higher levels of anxiety compared to women undergoing fertility treatments and to pregnant women in Iran.
The findings were published in the
Journal of Affective Disorders Reports.
The pandemic has changed the social environments of pregnant women and fertility patients.
Koubon Wakashima, Clinical Psychologist, Tohoku University
For example, restrictions in Japan meant that pregnant women have been unable to participate in group parenting classes or travel to their parents homes to receive traditional childbirth assistance. Medical institutions in the country reported fewer women accessing infertility treatments.
Sendai [Japan], March 11 (ANI): Pregnant women had higher levels of anxiety compared to fertility patients during the Covid pandemic, according to the findings of an online survey in Japan.