Mental Health in Pregnant Women in the COVID-19 Era

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is caused by anew virus from the coronavirus family, which first appeared in late December 2019 in Wuhan Province, China (1). The virus was officially announced by China on January 20, 2020, and then spread rapidly to other countries throughout the world (1). Following the spread of the virus, its negative physical and psychological effects gradually emerged. Through the years, experiences of the world in the face of the crises caused by plague pandemics over several different years (2), Spanishfluin 1918 (3), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002 (4), H1N1 in 2009 (5), middle-east respiratory syndrome (MERS) in 2012 (6), and Ebola virus disease (EVD) in 2014 (7) indicate the psychological, physical, economic, and social effects of pandemics on people. All the studies investigating the issue of pandemics have indicated that vulnerable groups suffer more anxiety than others (2-7).