Post-partum women's anxiety and parenting stress: home-visiting protective effect during the COVID-19 pandemic

This database includes the raw data linked with the paper “Post-partum women's anxiety and parenting stress: home-visiting protective effect during the COVID-19 pandemic”. This publication is part of the longitudinal project “Measuring the outcomes of maternal COVID-19-related prenatal exposure (MOM-COPE)” research project. The present work assesses mothers' anxiety levels at delivery and parenting stress after three months as moderated by home-visiting sessions. <strong>Procedures</strong> Women (n = 177) in their second or third trimester of pregnancy during the COVID-19 lockdown were enrolled and split into those who did and did not receive home visits. After three months, the association between anxiety at delivery and parenting stress was assessed. <strong>Analytical plan</strong> The association between anxiety at delivery and parenting stress was assessed with bivariate correlations in the whole sample and comparing the two groups. <strong>Findings in brief</strong> Higher anxiety at birth correlated with greater perceived stress after three months. Mothers who received at least one home-visiting session reported lower parenting stress at three months than counterparts who did not receive home visits.