Psychological intervention
Prenatal anxiety, which may cause great changes in the choice of
obstetrical care, and then affect the outcome of pregnancy20,21,34,35, should be paid attention to. Therefore,
during the global outbreak of COVID-19, psychological intervention and
corresponding public health measures for pregnant women are necessary,
which need the close cooperation of psychologists, obstetricians and
public health administration.8
From the psychological point of view, cognition is easy to be
manipulated. Our research results show that if some cognition (reflected
in attitude), even if it is reasonable, gets too centralized to control,
anxiety is inevitable. Therefore, during this period, some cognitive
related interventions should be taken: (1) to push the information of
authoritative source; (2) to correctly understand the susceptibility of
disease; (3) to perceive the risk rationally (not too extreme).