Examining the Relationship Between Spiritual Well-Being and Pregnancy Distress in Pregnant Women

Year 2024, Volume: 11 Issue: 3, 201 - 206, 28.10.2024

İlknur Gökşin , Zekiye Soykan Sert

https://doi.org/10.31125/hunhemsire.1429600

Abstract

Aim: This study was conducted to determine the relationship between pregnant women's spiritual well-being levels and their pregnancy-related stress.
Material and Methods: The sample of the descriptive and correlational study consisted of 250 pregnant women aged 18 years and over with the 12th week of pregnancy and above who were admitted to the Obstetrics and Gynecology outpatient clinic of a Training and Research Hospital between November 2020 and April 2021 and who agreed to participate in the study. The data were collected using the Personal Information Form, Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS), and Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale (TPDS). The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) statistical program was used to evaluate the data.
Results: The mean age of the pregnant women was 26.5±5.3 years. It was determined that 39.6% of the pregnant women were secondary school graduates, 72% had planned pregnancies, 31.6% were primiparous and 60% were in the third trimester. A statistically significant, negative, and weak relationship was found between the spiritual well-being levels of pregnant women and pregnancy-related stress (r=-0.33, p≤ 0.001).
Conclusion: In this study, the spiritual well-being of pregnant women was determined to be high, and pregnancy-related stress was found to be low. However, it was found that as the spiritual well-being of pregnant women increased, their pregnancy-related stress decreased.

Keywords

Pregnant women, Pregnancy distress, Spirituality, Spiritual well-being

Gebe Kadınlarda Spiritüel İyi Oluş ve Gebelik Distresi Arasındaki İlişkinin İncelenmesi

Abstract

Amaç: Bu çalışma gebelerin spiritüel iyilik oluş düzeyleri ile gebeliğe bağlı stresleri arasındaki ilişkiyi belirlemek amacıyla yapılmıştır.
Gereç ve Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı ve ilişki arayıcı araştırmanın örneklemini Kasım 2020-Nisan 2021 tarihleri arasında bir Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi Kadın Hastalıkları ve Doğum polikliniğine başvuran ve çalışmaya katılmayı kabul eden 18 yaş ve üzerindeki gebeliğinin 12. hafta ve üzerinde gebelik haftasındaki 250 gebe kadın oluşturmuştur. Veriler Kişisel Bilgi Formu, Spiritüel İyi Oluş Ölçeği (SİOÖ) ve Tilburg Gebelikte Distres Ölçeği (TGDÖ) toplanarak elde edilmiştir. Verilerin değerlendirilmesinde Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) istatistik programı kullanılmıştır.
Bulgular: Gebelerin yaş ortalaması 26.5±5.3 yıldır. Gebelerin %39.6'sının ortaokul mezunu olduğu, %72'sinin planlı gebelik yaşadığı, %31.6'sının primipar olduğu ve %60'ının 3. trimesterde olduğu belirlenmiştir. Gebelerin spiritüel iyi oluş düzeyleri ile gebeliğe bağlı stresleri arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı, negative yönde ve zayıf bir ilişki bulunmuştur (r=-0.33, p≤ 0.001).
Sonuç: Bu çalışmada gebelerin spiritüel iyilik halleri yüksek, gebeliğe bağlı stresleri ise düşük olarak belirlenmiştir. Bununla birlikte, gebelerin spiritüel iyilik halleri arttıkça gebelik ile ilişkili streslerinin azaldığı bulunmuştur.

Keywords

Gebe, Gebelik distresi, Maneviyat, Manevi iyi oluş

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