Table 5.
Comparison of specific postpartum anxiety between women who felt NEN and those who do not.
| Specific Postpartum Anxiety Measured on the NRS-A (Score Range 0 to 10) | NEN_Low_T2 (n = 146) |
NEN_High_T2 (n = 54) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mdn | Mrank | Mdn | Mrank | U (Z) | |
| Anxiety of self-care for a child during the day | 1.00 | 88.76 | 3.50 | 132.23 | 4.793 ** |
| Anxiety of self-care for a child at night | 2.00 | 87.11 | 5.50 | 136.71 | 5.438 ** |
| Anxiety of baby crying | 2.00 | 90.42 | 4.00 | 127.74 | 4.090 ** |
| Anxiety of natural feeding | 2.00 | 90.27 | 5.00 | 128.17 | 4.167 ** |
| Anxiety of asking staff for help | 1.00 | 89.62 | 3.00 | 129.92 | 4.489 ** |
| Anxiety of getting COVID-19 | 2.00 | 96.71 | 4.00 | 110.74 | 1.544 |
Mrank, mean of ranks in the group; NEN, need to entrust a newborn in the care of maternity rooming-in staff; NEN_low, women without NEN; NEN_high, women with NEN; T2, the second day of puerperium; U (Z), test’s statistics of U Mann–Whitney test. ** p < 0.01.