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Evaluation of factors related to maternal anxiety during pregnancy among women referred to Tabriz primary care centers

BACKGROUND: Maternal anxiety during pregnancy is sometimes considered a normal mechanism to overcome the mother’s mental preoccupation with having a child. However, stress and anxiety might become a medical condition, becoming so severe as to affect the mother’s mental health. Therefore, the present...

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Autores principales: Mahini, Elmira, Hakimi, Sevil, Shahrokhi, Hassan, Salahi, Behnaz, Baniadam, Khatereh Olad, Ranjbar, Fatemeh
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10170804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37165314
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04823-8
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author Mahini, Elmira
Hakimi, Sevil
Shahrokhi, Hassan
Salahi, Behnaz
Baniadam, Khatereh Olad
Ranjbar, Fatemeh
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Hakimi, Sevil
Shahrokhi, Hassan
Salahi, Behnaz
Baniadam, Khatereh Olad
Ranjbar, Fatemeh
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description BACKGROUND: Maternal anxiety during pregnancy is sometimes considered a normal mechanism to overcome the mother’s mental preoccupation with having a child. However, stress and anxiety might become a medical condition, becoming so severe as to affect the mother’s mental health. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate factors related to maternal anxiety during pregnancy in women referring to prenatal primary care centers in Tabriz. METHODS: The target population in the present cross-sectional study was the pregnant women referring to primary care centers affiliated with Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in 2018–2019 (n = 533). Sampling was carried out using the random cluster technique (separately for municipal centers). The data were collected using the study tools, including a questionnaire on demographic data, prenatal anxiety screening scale (PASS), and researcher-made questions on maternal anxiety during pregnancy. RESULTS: In the present study, 37.5% of pregnant women had anxiety. Of all the demographic and background variables, income (P = 0.015), a history of preterm delivery (P = 0.018), and unintended pregnancy (P = 0.022) were significantly related to anxiety. Of the variables of income, a history of preterm delivery, and unintended pregnancy in the regression model, the odds of anxiety were 41% lower in pregnant women with somewhat adequate income than those with inadequate income after correcting for other variables (P = 0.011). In addition, the variable of unintended pregnancy increased the odds of anxiety up to 49% after correcting for other variables (P = 0.023). CONCLUSION: The present study showed that income and unintended pregnancy significantly affect maternal anxiety during pregnancy. TRIAL REGISTRATION: The protocol of the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences under the code (IR.TBZMED.REC.1398.161).
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spelling pubmed-101708042023-05-11 Evaluation of factors related to maternal anxiety during pregnancy among women referred to Tabriz primary care centers Mahini, Elmira Hakimi, Sevil Shahrokhi, Hassan Salahi, Behnaz Baniadam, Khatereh Olad Ranjbar, Fatemeh BMC Psychiatry Research BACKGROUND: Maternal anxiety during pregnancy is sometimes considered a normal mechanism to overcome the mother’s mental preoccupation with having a child. However, stress and anxiety might become a medical condition, becoming so severe as to affect the mother’s mental health. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate factors related to maternal anxiety during pregnancy in women referring to prenatal primary care centers in Tabriz. METHODS: The target population in the present cross-sectional study was the pregnant women referring to primary care centers affiliated with Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in 2018–2019 (n = 533). Sampling was carried out using the random cluster technique (separately for municipal centers). The data were collected using the study tools, including a questionnaire on demographic data, prenatal anxiety screening scale (PASS), and researcher-made questions on maternal anxiety during pregnancy. RESULTS: In the present study, 37.5% of pregnant women had anxiety. Of all the demographic and background variables, income (P = 0.015), a history of preterm delivery (P = 0.018), and unintended pregnancy (P = 0.022) were significantly related to anxiety. Of the variables of income, a history of preterm delivery, and unintended pregnancy in the regression model, the odds of anxiety were 41% lower in pregnant women with somewhat adequate income than those with inadequate income after correcting for other variables (P = 0.011). In addition, the variable of unintended pregnancy increased the odds of anxiety up to 49% after correcting for other variables (P = 0.023). CONCLUSION: The present study showed that income and unintended pregnancy significantly affect maternal anxiety during pregnancy. TRIAL REGISTRATION: The protocol of the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences under the code (IR.TBZMED.REC.1398.161). BioMed Central 2023-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10170804/ /pubmed/37165314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04823-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Ranjbar, Fatemeh
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title_sort evaluation of factors related to maternal anxiety during pregnancy among women referred to tabriz primary care centers
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10170804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37165314
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04823-8
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