Laboring Alone: Perinatal Outcomes during Childbirth without a Birth Partner or Other Companion during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15120%2F23%3A73619722" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15120/23:73619722 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/68407700:21460/23:00350595 RIV/00216208:11110/23:10474530 RIV/00064165:_____/23:10474530

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9916022/pdf/ijerph-20-02614.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9916022/pdf/ijerph-20-02614.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032614" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijerph20032614</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Laboring Alone: Perinatal Outcomes during Childbirth without a Birth Partner or Other Companion during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Original language description

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, the governmentof the Czech Republic issued a nationwide ban on visitors to maternity wards. We studied whetherthe absence of a close person during labor due to this ban impacted perinatal indicators. This studywas performed using an administrative observational questionnaire focused on absolute frequenciesof events sent to maternity facilities across the Czech Republic. Completed answers were receivedfrom 33 facilities covering 4805 births during the study period in 2019 and 4514 births in 2020. Thedifferences in individual parameters were tested using Pearson’s chi-squared homogeneity test. Therewere no significant differences between the two periods in spontaneous pre-term births (p = 0.522)or in the number of cesarean sections (p = 0.536). No significant changes were seen in either localor systemic analgesia. Data showed a significantly shorter (p = 0.026) first stage of labor in 2020compared to 2019, while there was no significant difference (p = 0.673) in the second stage of labor.There was no statistically significant difference found for newborn perinatal adaptation. There werealso no significant differences in intrapartum maternal injuries. Overall, we found no significantdifferences in basic perinatal indicators during the first wave of COVID-19 in 2020 compared to 2019.Although the absence of a close person may cause stress for the laboring women, it does not impairobjective clinical outcomes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30307 - Nursing

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

ISSN

1661-7827

e-ISSN

1660-4601

Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85147816623