A comparison of COVID-19 vaccination status among pregnant Israeli Jewish and Arab women and psychological distress among the Arab women.
Orit Taubman-Ben-Ari, Efrat Weiss, Salam Abu-Sharkia and 1 others
PMID 35150201WHAT IT FOUND
Among pregnant Arab women in Israel, vaccinated women reported lower psychological distress than women who had recovered or remained unvaccinated.
Nurses in maternity care can use this association, not proof, when discussing vaccination.
Key findings
01Among Arab pregnant women, those who had been vaccinated reported lower psychological distress than those who had recovered or were neither vaccinated nor recovered.
02Pregnant Jewish women reported lower psychological distress than pregnant Arab women.
03Among Arab women, lower physical health, lower economic status, already being a mother, and not being vaccinated were associated with higher psychological distress.
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What it does not show
The sample was a convenience sample recruited through social media, so it may not represent all pregnant women in Israel. The study measured women at one time, so it cannot show that vaccination caused lower distress or that unvaccinated status caused higher distress. The Jewish sample was mostly vaccinated, so the researchers could not examine vaccination status and distress in that group as they did among Arab women. All information came from self-report questionnaires, and some questionnaire sections were constructed for this study. The response rate was 65%, and women who chose to participate may differ from those who did not.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflict of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that vaccination caused lower psychological distress. This was a cross-sectional self-report survey, and among Arab women vaccination status added 1.1% to the explained variance.