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Review
. 2020 Dec 8:1:588372.
doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2020.588372. eCollection 2020.

Women's Mental Health in the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic

Florence Thibaut  1 , Patricia J M van Wijngaarden-Cremers  2
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Women's Mental Health in the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic

Florence Thibaut et al. Front Glob Womens Health. .

Abstract

Even if the fatality rate has been twice higher for men than for women, the Covid-19 pandemic has affected women more than men, both as frontline workers and at home. The aim of our article was to analyze the differences observed in mental health and violence between men and women in the COVID outbreak. For this purpose, we have used all papers available in PubMed between January and July 2020 as well as data from non-governmental associations. We have thus successively analyzed the situation of pregnancy during the pandemic; the specific psychological and psychiatric risks faced by women both as patients and as workers in the health sector, the increased risk of violence against women at home and at workplace and, finally the risk run by children within their families. In conclusion, research on the subject of mental health issues during the Covid-19 pandemic is still scarce, especially in women. We hope that this pandemic will help to recognize the major role of women at home and at the workplace.

Keywords: Covid-19; domestic violence; gender; mental health; pandemic; pregnancy; women.

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Conflict of interest statement

FT is Editor-in-Chief of Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience (the journal receives a grant from La conférence Hippocrate-Servier). The remaining author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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