Stephanie Pabon, José Paulo Guida, Martha Narvaez Lamus, Charles MPoca Charles, Mary Angela Parpinelli, María Fernanda Escobar, José Guilherme Cecatti, Maria Laura Costa
Conditions such as violence, drug abuse, sexual satisfaction, anxiety, depression, and disability interfere with a healthy pregnancy and can also account for maternal morbidity. The instrument WOICE was built by WHO to measure it. We applied WOICE in a prospective cohort of 125 pregnant women, using a before-after approach, during the third trimester of pregnancy, and after 42 until 90 days of childbirth. 60% had anxiety during pregnancy, decreasing to 48.8% after delivery ( p = 0.07), and depression scores decreased from 7...
September 25, 2023: Health Care for Women International