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. 2021 Aug 27;92(5):e749–e763. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13656

TABLE 6.

Maternal depressive symptom (CES‐D) scores in the pre‐pandemic comparison sample

Before 03/23/2020 Before 02/28/2020 Before 1/30/2020
Oregon stay at home order First COVID−19 case in Oregon WHO declared global health emergency
2nd trimester N = 155 N = 144 N = 133
Mean 8.62 8.34 8.13
SD 7.12 7.1 6.87
>15 23 (15%) 20 (14%) 17 (13%)
>27 3 (2%) 3 (2%) 3 (2%)
3rd trimester N = 111 N = 105 N = 94
Mean 11.06 10.8 11.28
SD 6.52 6.31 6.42
>15 23 (21%) 20 (19%) 20 (21%)
>27 1 (1%) 1 (1%) 1 (1%)
1 month postpartum N = 75 N = 64 N = 55
Mean 8.12 8.19 8.35
SD 6.13 5.91 5.98
>15 6 (8%) 5 (8%) 4 (7%)
>27 1 (1%) 1 (2%) 1 (2%)
6 months postpartum N = 43 N = 36 N = 25
Mean 7.53 8.22 7.48
SD 7.01 7.21 6.26
>15 5 (12%) 5 (14%) 3 (12%)
>27 1 (2%) 1 (3%) 0 (0%)

CES‐D, Center for Epidemiological Studies–Depression Scale; WHO, World Health Organization.