Covid-19 risk perception and anxiety of third-semester pregnant mothers in facing childbirth during the time of covid-19 pandemic in 2022

Abstract

Pregnant women have the most anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic because they are vulnerable and at high risk. Excessive anxiety raises stress hormone levels in the body, which inhibits cervical dilatation and causes labor to take longer. Long delivery is one of the causes of Indonesia's high maternal mortality rate. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that influence third-trimester pregnant women's worry about childbirth during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Kasihan I Community Health Center in 2022. The research design used was Cross-Sectional with an analytical survey method. Sampling was done by purposive sampling technique where the sample amounted to 74 respondents. Data were analyzed using univariate, bivariate, and multivariate logistic regression. The findings revealed a link between the perceived risk of COVID-19 and the anxiety of pregnant women in their third trimester about giving birth at the Kasihan I Community Health Center in 2022. The study's result was the varying perception of COVID-19 risk and the anxiety of pregnant women in their third trimester.

The Effect of Childbirth Education in Reducing Anxiety in Facing Childbirth in the Third Trimester Pregnant Women: Scoping Review

“…In the research in this article, the statistical results obtained from the two groups were comparable (p> 0.05). Still, this score decreased significantly after treatment from 36.79-29.79 in the treatment group and from 36.85-32, 03 in the control group 12 . Furthermore, from the results obtained in this experimental study, mothers with "moderate" anxiety were around 46.7%, while there was a "low" anxiety class for pregnant women, around 83%.…”

“…The framework aims to identify the scope of the study as a viable and scientifically proven method for conducting a literature review. As suggested by Arksey and O'Malley, The steps of the process used in writing this scoping review consist of (1) identifying how questions from the scoping review, (2) identifying the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the selected articles (3) filtering articles according to the topic the target (4) conducts data charting (5) reports after compiling the data and results in 12 .…”

“…Based on article (A6), a pretest was carried out first, then childbirth preparation education with a (treatment) post-test after the intervention was carried out two times with an interval of 1 week; in this study, there was no control group. Whereas with childbirth preparation classes given two meetings, with a time of 1 week, it was found that there was research in Italy which stated that childbirth preparation classes significantly reduced maternal anxiety in facing labour 12 .…”