Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal mental health. (July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rose, Elizabeth; Manoharan, Manonmani; Powell, Jennifer
• Is Part Of: BJPsych advances. Volume 27:Number 4(2021)
• Page Start: 243
• Page End: 246
• Publication Date: 2021-07
• Subjects: Perinatal psychiatry -- coronavirus -- pandemic -- lockdown -- maternal mental health; Psychiatry -- Periodicals; 616.89005
• DOI: 10.1192/bja.2020.78
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2056-4678

Abstract

SUMMARY: The ongoing impact on global mental health of the COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation measures used to combat its spread is increasingly acknowledged. This reflection focuses on the effect the pandemic has had specifically on the mental health of women in the peripartum period, using recent case examples from a busy and diverse south London community perinatal psychiatry service.