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.