Explore the Archives
A Journal of the Plague Year Arizona Collection Australia Boston Bronx Community College New York Brooklyn College New York Canada Las Americas Lockdown Staten Island New Orleans Oral Histories Philippines Sacramento Community Based Organizations Southwest Stories Teaching the Pandemic The City College of New York

Collected Item: “Maternal mental health and coping during the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK: Data from the COVID-19 New Mum Study”

Give your story a title.

Maternal mental health and coping during the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK: Data from the COVID-19 New Mum Study

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Text/clinical article: results of a study performed in the UK to inquire about mental health of new mothers during the COVID-19 lockdown

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This study demonstrates the interest of medical professionals in the UK towards the mental wellbeing of new mothers being impacted by pandemic-related lockdown. Various descriptors were used in the survey to assess emotion, feelings, states of being, and how the new mothers could cope with these changes as they specifically relate to the COVID-19 experience and mental health.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

UK, COVID-19, mother, motherhood, child, support system, emotion, feeling, health, mental health, coping

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ijgo.13397

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Sarah Dib, Emeline Rougeaux, Adriana Vasquez-Vasquez, Jonathan C. K. Wells, Mary Fewtrell

Give this story a date.

2020-10-16
Click here to view the corresponding item.