Introduction: With the declaration of the COVID-19 epidemic in Slovenia, the lives of many young families have changed dramatically. During pregnancy and after childbirth, young families need the help of their closest and healthcare workers, as they face many changes and novelties in this new period, but they have been severely deprived of help. During the epidemic, community health nurses played a key role in providing information to pregnant women and young families, especially in preparing them for childbirth and care for the purperia and the newborn. Purpose: The purpose of the diploma work is to present, what role community health nurses played for pregnant women and young families and why they are important professionals during the period of preparation for parenthood and early parenthood. The aim of the diploma work is to find out what problems young families faced during the epidemic, what information young parents missed, and to what extent they made home visits during the epidemic. Methods: A survey questionnaire was designed. A non-experimental quantitative and qualitative research was conducted, in which we asked about the interventions of community health nurses and about problems faced by young families during the COVID-19 epidemic. The questionnaire was designed using the 1KA tool. It contained open-ended and closed questions. The questionnaire was published in different social networks, using the snowball principle. The diploma work includes only the analysis of the demographic data and the answers to the open-ended questions, a qualitative analysis of the content was made. The questionnaire was duly completed by 800 respondents. There were 787 (98%) women and 13 (2%) men who participated. Results: The results show that nurses visited mostly young families during the epidemic but focused more on newborns and infants than on infants and young families in general. The results showed that children and young families had a lot of problems during the epidemic - not only health problems but also social, psychological, financial, etc. Many of these problems were precisely related to the epidemic and the accompanying interventions. Discussion and conclusion: We found out that the work of community health nurses in young families is extremely important for young families, not only in informing and implementing interventions but also in providing the support and conversation that young families needed at the time of the epidemic. Pregnancy and the arrival of a child represent something completely new for a young family, bringing beautiful moments and, at the same time, often worries and problems. In addition to all this, the COVID -19 epidemic brought additional problems for young families at that time.
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