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Pregnant Quebecers' depressive symptoms less severe than in ROC during pandemic: study - Montreal Gazette

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Quebecers who were pregnant between March and the end of August, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, seem to be doing better than women elsewhere in Canada in terms of depressive symptoms, according to preliminary results of a Montreal-led international study on women, pregnancy and the pandemic.

But they are doing considerably worse than women who were pregnant during the 1998 ice storm, based on measures of their depressive symptoms made using the same standardized scale.

During the pandemic’s first wave, 45 per cent of pregnant women in Quebec showed moderate to severe depressive symptoms — “twice what we found during the ice storm,” said Dr. Anick Bérard, the study’s principal investigator. Bérard is a researcher at the Ste-Justine Hospital research centre and a professor of epidemiology in the Université de Montréal’s faculty of pharmacy.

“My hypothesis is that the pandemic was impacting pregnant women’s mental health more than other disasters previously and, depending on where you resided, you were affected differently,” said Bérard. One goal of the study, being conducted by the Université de Montréal and Ste-Justine Hospital, is to quantify that effect.

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