Analysis of a potential correlation between anxiety and birth weight percentile
There was a negative correlation between STAIt score and birth weight percentile (r=-0.228, p=0.047) (Figure 2). There was also a negative correlation between STAIs score and birth weight percentile, but it was not statistically significant (r=-0.183, p=0.060). Other neonatal biometric parameters (HC and Lt) did not show a correlation with STAIt or STAIs.
There was a negative correlation between STAIs score and gestational age at the beginning of the lockdown period (r=-0.223, p=0.022), which means that the lower the gestational age when lockdown started, the higher the state anxiety during pregnancy. However, gestational age at the beginning of the lockdown did not show any correlation with birth weight (r=0.115, p=0.242). On the other hand, there was a certain correlation between gestational age at the beginning of the lockdown period and birth weight percentile (r=0.170, p=0.082).