Prenatal mental health 5.xlsx

Hundreds of countries have implemented lockdown policies to slow the spread of COVID-19, but the impact of these measures on maternal mental health is not well understood. This study integrated a stress-process model to examine the pathways from three lockdown-related stressors (income, food, and infection) to prenatal psychological outcomes, with coping strategies (COP) and self-efficacy in managing negative emotions (NEG) as mediators and lockdown duration, hours on pandemic-related information, and number of pregnancies as moderators.