Abstract
In the study, it has been aimed to determine the pregnant women’s; fear of Covid-19 and the preventive, traditional and complementary medicine practices used regarding the risk of Covid-19. The study has been made cross-sectionally with 594 pregnant women in the Perinatology Outpatient Clinic of a university hospital between 10 July and 10 September 2021. The data have been collected with a questionnaire form and the Coronavirus Fear Scale. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation test have been used in data analysis and p<0.05 value was considered as statistically significant. The pregnant women's Fear of Coronavirus Scale score is 18.33±7.15. The most followed rules are ventilation of the environment (98.3%), wearing a mask (98.3%), covering the mouth/nose with a tissue when coughing/sneezing (97.0%). The least practiced ones are washing clothes at high temperatures (17.2%), not sharing personal items (13.1%) and not touching the mouth, nose and eyes with hands (12.8%). Pregnant women make an average of 14.35±4.89 of 29 preventive, traditional and complementary medicine practices against Covid-19. The most commonly used practices are consuming green vegetables and fruits (93.3%), meat, fish and eggs (89.9%), and drinking plenty of water (89.2%). Pregnant women have obtained the information about practices mostly from doctors (25.1%), and social media (20.7%). There is a weak positive correlation between the increasing fear of Covid-19 in pregnant women and the number of preventive, traditional and complementary medicine applications and the number of rules applied (<0.001). As the result, pregnant women use these practices widely in the pandemic, and with the increasing fear of coronavirus the cases of applying these methods and their tendency to follow the rules increase.