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The COVID\u201019 pandemic put an additional burden on this already challenging situation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Aims<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We aimed to analyse (1) the impact of the COVID\u201019 pandemic on the severity of specific depressive, anhedonia, anxiety and self\u2010harm thoughts (SHTs) symptoms in mothers of preterm babies, (2) differences in the severity of these symptoms among mothers who gave birth very preterm, moderately and late preterm and (3) potential socio\u2010demographic, psychological, birth\u2010related and COVID\u201019\u2010related factors associated with an increase in the mothers\u2019 scores.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A total of 948 mothers of preterm children took part in a midwife\u2010led postpartum depression (PPD) screening; 543 of them gave birth during the pandemic, and 405\u2014after. A sociodemographic survey and the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale (EPDS) were administered. To investigate possible differences between comparison groups, we conducted\n                      <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2010tests, one\u2010way ANOVAs with Tukey post hoc tests, and chi\u2010square tests. Several hierarchical multiple regression analyses were performed to assess possible risk factors for postpartum mental health problems.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We found that mothers who gave birth to very preterm children scored higher in depressive symptoms than mothers of moderately and late preterm children. In general, women who gave birth during COVID\u201019 scored higher in anxiety (a statistical trend), but not in depression. 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