Open AccessThe Impact of Outpatient Prenatal Care Visitor Restrictions on Pregnant Patients and Partners During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Christina Collart,
Caitlin Craighead,
Susannah Rose,
Richard M. Frankel,
Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds,
Uma Perni,
Edward K. Chien,
Marissa Coleridge,
Angela C. Ranzini,
Ruth M. Farrell
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
women's health reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2688-4844
DOI - 10.1089/whr.2022.0031
Subject(s) - visitor pattern , medicine , prenatal care , pandemic , nursing , pregnancy , health care , disappointment , public health , anxiety , qualitative research , family medicine , psychology , psychiatry , population , covid-19 , environmental health , disease , social psychology , computer science , biology , genetics , programming language , infectious disease (medical specialty) , social science , sociology , economic growth , pathology , economics
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, several health care facilities enacted visitor restrictions to help reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 among patients, front-line workers in health care systems, and communities. The impact and burden of policy updates on visitor restrictions put forth by the COVID-19 pandemic can be seen on patients and families, most often in the acute care setting and skilled nursing facilities. Yet, the effects of visitor restrictions in the prenatal care setting were unknown. We conducted a study to investigate the impact of these policies on pregnant patients who received outpatient prenatal care.