Characteristics, anxiety level and behavioral changes of
pregnants:
60 (34,48%) of a total of 174 pregnant women were in first trimester,
53(30,45%) were in second and 61(35,05%) were in third trimester.
STAI-S and STAI-T scores were not
statistically different amongst the trimester groups. Furthermore the
education level of the pregnant women and whether they received
psychosocial support or in which trimester they were, did not make any
difference between the STAI-S
scores. STAI-S scores were
significantly different in the different age groups (p=0,031) (Table 2).
Post-hoc comparisons revealed that
STAI-S scores for pregnants in age
groups ‘over 20 years’ were similar, whereas STAI-S scores of pregnants
‘under 20 years’ showed a significant difference when compared to
pregnants in the older age groups of ‘20-30 year olds’ (p=0,02) and
‘30-40 year olds’ (p=0,03).
Cancelling appointments of prenatal care
(46,5% of total pregnants) and
the fear of going to hospital (67% of total pregnants) is obviously
high in third trimester (46,9%, p= <0,001;41,5%, p=0,002)
(Table 3). Participants, who did not go to antenetal visits, stated that
they were afraid of contracting Covid-19 in hospital themselves or their
unborn baby or both, there was no difference between the trimester
groups.