Introduction
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) were first reported in December
2019 in Hubei province, China 1, 2.
All ages and genders are at risk for Covid-19 infection, but there is
limited information about various effect of COVID-19 in pregnant women.
Pregnant patients often were excluded from the clinical trials and most
data about COVID-19 have come from non-pregnant studies.3
Studies have shown that, pregnancy is associated with a fear of
COVID-19.4 The pregnancy period is often accompanied
by mental problems especially in women with psychiatric and anxiety
disorders. 5 High stress of Covid-19 pandemic, news of
spread, financial stress for people who lost their job, death causes by
virus, disruption of treatment and limitation of refer to medical
centers can increase mental disorders, all these reasons made
development of some new onset psychotic disorders in people without any
past mental disorders history and can cause exacerbation of psychotic
symptoms of patient with this disease.6
Psychotic disorders are reasons for harmful outcomes include: suicide,
homicide and other dangerous behaviors. Based on this insight usually
suicide rate introduce as a proxy to indicate level of mental health in
general population. Generally, 90% of suicide associated with at least
one mental disorder like psychosis or depression.7, 8,
The pregnant women with mental disease are more subspecies to suicide
with their drugs comparing with the general
population.9 The safety issue of antipsychotic and
antidepressants drugs in last month of pregnancy and near delivery has
not been established.