Information Needs of Pregnant Women in the COVID-19 Pandemic from Experts' Point of View: A Qualitative Study.
Fatemeh Rezaei, Zahra Masaeli, Golrokh Atighechian
PMID 33875966WHAT IT FOUND
Experts identified four key information needs for pregnant women during the pandemic: self-care skills, risk perception, awareness of threats to the baby, and knowledge of available health services.
They emphasized tailoring messages to literacy levels and using reliable university sources to counter social media misinformation.
Key findings
01The study identified four main categories of information needs: self-efficacy, sensitivity to preventive measures, awareness of perceived threats, and awareness of health system functions.
02Experts recommended providing information tailored to the mother's literacy level to effectively increase risk perception and ensure understanding of preventive measures.
03Participants highlighted the need to inform women about specific health system functions, including referral centers, home-based services, and telemedicine, to ensure access to care during lockdowns.
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What it does not show
The study was conducted during the early months of the pandemic in Iran, so the specific advice may not apply to later variants or different geographic contexts. The participants were all experts, so the findings reflect professional perspectives on what patients need, not necessarily what patients reported needing themselves. Access to participants was limited by quarantine restrictions, which may have affected the diversity of the sample.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret this as evidence that these interventions improved patient outcomes. The study reports what experts believed pregnant women needed to know, not the effectiveness of providing that information.