Examination of the Relationship between Pregnancy Stress and Health Practices in Pregnant Women and the Factors Affecting It

Year 2024, Volume: 17 Issue: 3, 362 - 373

Ebru Solmaz Ebru Şahin

https://doi.org/10.46483/jnef.1516048

Abstract

Background: It is reported that the health practices applied during the pregnancy period cause some psychological effects during this period.

Objective: This study aimed to examine the effects of health practices during pregnancy on pregnancy stress.

Method: This study, which describes the health practices of pregnant women and seeks a relationship with pregnancy stress, was conducted on 368 pregnant women who applied to the obstetrics clinic of a hospital in eastern Turkey between July 2021 and August 2021. The data were collected using the Personal Information Form, the Health Practices in Pregnancy Scale (HPQ-II), and the Pregnancy Stress Assessment Scale (PSRS). In the analysis of data; descriptive statistics methods were used.

Results: It was found that the participants’ HPQ-II mean score was 103.90±15.46 and PSRS mean score was 73.20±20.52. It was observed that the mean HPQ-II scores were different according to the age, education level, occupation of the pregnant women, family type, pregnancy period, number of pregnancies, number of births, having a pregnancy plan, time between two pregnancies and gender preference (p<0.05). The difference in the mean PSRS score of the participants according to age, number of pregnancies, number of births, planned pregnancy and gender preference was found to be statistically significant (p<0.05). It was determined that there was a low level of statistically significant positive correlation between the HPQ-II score average of the pregnant women and the PSRS score average (r=0.132).

Conclusion: It has been observed that pregnancy stress increases as the quality of health practice increases during pregnancy.

Keywords

Pregnancy, Health Practices, Stress, Nursing

Gebelerin Sağlık Uygulamaları ile Gebelik Stresi İlişkisi ve Etkileyen Faktörlerin İncelenmesi

Abstract

Giriş: Gebelik dönemi boyunca uygulanan sağlık uygulamalarının bu dönemde bir takım psikolojik etkilere neden olduğu bildirilmektedir.

Amaç: Bu araştırma gebelikte sağlık uygulamalarının gebelik stresi üzerine etkisini incelemek amaçlanmıştır.

Yöntem: Gebelerin sağlık uygulamalarını tanımlayan ve gebelik stresi ile ilişki arayan bu çalışma Temmuz 2021-Ağustos 2021 tarihlerinde Türkiye’nin doğusunda yer alan bir hastanenin kadın doğum polikliniğine başvuran 368 gebe üzerinde yürütülmüştür. Veriler, Kişisel Bilgi Formu, Gebelikte Sağlık Uygulamaları Ölçeği (GSUÖ) ve Gebelik Stresini Değerlendirme Ölçeği (GSDÖ-36) kullanılarak toplanmıştır. Verilerin analizinde; tanımlayıcı istatistikler yöntemler kullanılmıştır.

Bulgular: Katılımcıların GSUÖ puan ortalamasının 103.90±15.46 ve GSDÖ-36 puan ortalamasının 73.20±20.52 olduğu bulunmuştur. Gebelerin yaşı, eğitim düzeyi, meslekleri, aile tipi, gebelik dönemi, gebelik sayısı, doğum sayısı, gebeliğin planı olma durumu, iki gebelik arası süre ve cinsiyet tercihine göre GSUÖ puan ortalamasının farklı olduğu görülmüştür (p<0.05). Katılımcıların yaş, gebelik sayısı, doğum sayısı, gebeliğin planlı olma durumu ve cinsiyet tercihine göre GSDÖ-36 puan ortalamasının farkının istatistiksel olarak anlamlı olduğu bulunmuştur (p<0.05). Gebelerin GSUÖ puan ortalaması ile GSDÖ-36 puan ortalaması arasında düşük düzeyde istatiksel olarak anlamlı pozitif yönlü ilişkinin olduğu belirlenmiştir (r=0.132).

Sonuç: Gebelikte sağlık uygulama kalitesi arttıkça gebelik stresinin arttığı görülmüştür.

Keywords

Gebelik, Sağlık Uygulamaları, Stres, Hemşirelik

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