The DOI matches its Crossref record; 25 of the 25 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Pregnancy-related anxiety during COVID-19: a nationwide survey of 2740 pregnant women
Open accessAbstract
The aim of this study is to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pregnant women's anxiety and identify factors most strongly associated with greater changes in anxiety. An anonymous, online, survey of pregnant women (distributed April 3-24, 2020) included a modified pregnancy-related anxiety scale (PRAS) reflecting respondents' perception of pregnancy anxiety before COVID-19 and a current assessment of pregnancy-related anxiety. The difference between these scores was used as the outcome variable. Data were analyzed using bivariate and multivariate linear regression analyses. Two thousand seven hundred forty pregnant women from 47 states completed the survey. 25.8% (N = 706) stopped in-person visits, 15.2% used video visits (N = 415), and 31.8% (N = 817) used phone visits for prenatal care as a result of COVID-19. Those planning a hospital birth dropped from 2641 (96.4%) to 2400 (87.7%) following COVID-19. More than half of women reported increased stress about food running out (59.2%, N = 1622), losing a job or household income (63.7%, N = 1745), or loss of childcare (56.3%, N = 1543). More than a third reported increasing stress about conflict between household members (37.5%, N = 1028), and 93% (N = 2556) reported increased stress about getting infected with COVID-19. Slightly less than half of respondents (either selves or family members) were healthcare workers (41.4%, N = 1133) or worked in essential services (45.5%, N = 1246). In multivariate analysis, those reporting higher agreement with COVID-19-related stressors had greater changes in pre- to post-COVID-19 pregnancy-related anxiety. The COVID-19 pandemic is profoundly affecting pregnant women's mental health, and factors independent of pregnancy appear to be driving changes in pregnancy-specific anxiety.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
von Elm, E., Altman, D. G., Egger, M., Pocock, S. J., Gøtzsche, P. C., Vandenbroucke, J. P., & Initiative, F. T. S. (2007) · PLoS Medicine · doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040296 · Cited by 23,020
von Elm, E., Altman, D. G., Egger, M., Pocock, S. J., Gøtzsche, P. C., & Vandenbroucke, J. P. (2008) · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology · doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2007.11.008 · Cited by 17,893
von Elm, E., Altman, D. G., Egger, M., Pocock, S. J., Gøtzsche, P. C., Vandenbroucke, J. P., & Initiative, F. T. S. (2007) · Annals of Internal Medicine · doi:10.7326/0003-4819-147-8-200710160-00010 · Cited by 17,796
Wang, C., Pan, R., Wan, X., Tan, Y., Xu, L., Ho, C. S., & Ho, R. C. (2020) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph17051729 · Cited by 9,923
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and pregnancy: what obstetricians need to know
Rasmussen, S. A., Smulian, J. C., Lednicky, J. A., Wen, T. S., & Jamieson, D. J. (2020) · American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology · doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2020.02.017 · Cited by 1,247
Universal Screening for SARS-CoV-2 in Women Admitted for Delivery
Sutton, D., Fuchs, K., D’Alton, M., & Goffman, D. (2020) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejmc2009316 · Cited by 1,029
Schwartz, D. A. (2020) · Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine · doi:10.5858/arpa.2020-0901-sa · Cited by 976
Dunkel Schetter, C. (2011) · Annual Review of Psychology · doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.031809.130727 · Cited by 900
Breslin, N., Baptiste, C., Gyamfi-Bannerman, C., Miller, R., Martinez, R., Bernstein, K., Ring, L., Landau, R., Purisch, S., Friedman, A. M., et al. (2020) · American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM · doi:10.1016/j.ajogmf.2020.100118 · Cited by 784
Yehuda, R., Engel, S. M., Brand, S. R., Seckl, J., Marcus, S. M., & Berkowitz, G. S. (2005) · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · doi:10.1210/jc.2005-0550 · Cited by 711
Cited by
Pandemic Roller‐Coaster? Birth Trends in Higher‐Income Countries During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Sobotka, T., Zeman, K., Jasilioniene, A., Winkler‐Dworak, M., Brzozowska, Z., Alustiza‐Galarza, A., Németh, L., & Jdanov, D. (2024) · Population and Development Review · doi:10.1111/padr.12544 · Cited by 171
Sweet, L., Bradfield, Z., Vasilevski, V., Wynter, K., Hauck, Y., Kuliukas, L., Homer, C. S. E., Szabo, R. A., & Wilson, A. N. (2021) · Midwifery · doi:10.1016/j.midw.2021.102996 · Cited by 68
Johnson, L. (2021) · BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth · doi:10.1186/s12884-021-04234-1 · Cited by 25
Firrahmawati, L., Wasityastuti, W., Kandarina, B. J. I., Marti, E., Chandra, L. A., & Sulistianingsih, A. (2025) · BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth · doi:10.1186/s12884-025-07523-1 · Cited by 11
“Good support and standardized pregnancy care are significant in reducing anxiety and fear before childbirth [11, 12].”
Metadata
- Authors
- Moyer, C. A., Compton, S. D., Kaselitz, E., & Muzik, M.
- Venue
- Archives of Women's Mental Health
- Published
- 2020-09-29
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 757-765
- ISSN
- 1434-1816 (ISSN-L)
- 1435-1102
- OpenAlex
- W3090886096
- Cited by
- 322
- References
- 25
- FWCI
- 43.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Pregnancy-related anxiety during COVID-19: a nationwide survey of 2740 pregnant women. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1007/s00737-020-01073-5
- The paper
- Moyer, C. A., Compton, S. D., Kaselitz, E., & Muzik, M. (2020). Pregnancy-related anxiety during COVID-19: a nationwide survey of 2740 pregnant women. Archives of Women's Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-020-01073-5
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
