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AIM: This multi-centered, longitudinal, and prospective study aims to identify women's sexual functions, sexual quality of life, and depression and their relationships with each other in the pregnancy and postpartum periods. METHODS: The participating pregnant women (n = 113) were interviewed six times: once in each trimester, and once in the eighth week third month, and sixth month postpartum. This study was conducted in three regions of Turkey including Marmara, Mediterranean, and Central Anatolia regions. Data were collected through the "Socio-demographic Form," "Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI)," Sexual Quality of Life-Female Questionnaire (SQLQ-F), and "Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D)." While the first interviews were administered face to face, successive ones were administered via phone. RESULTS: The sexual dysfunction rates of the participants were found to be high in the pregnancy and postpartum periods, and their sexual quality of life, which decreased as the pregnancy months progressed, was found to increase significantly with the progress in the postpartum period. The sexual dysfunction increased and sexual quality of life decreased significantly with the increase in depression symptoms in the pregnancy and postpartum periods. When the depressive symptoms decreased especially in the sixth month postpartum, sexual quality of life was also found to increase. CONCLUSIONS: As a result, in the pregnancy and postpartum periods, it is highly important to provide women with diagnosis through a holistic approach by creating available environments to assess their psychological health and sexual functions and refer them to the related physicians when necessary.
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Depresión Posparto , Disfunciones Sexuales Fisiológicas , Depresión/epidemiología , Depresión/psicología , Depresión Posparto/epidemiología , Depresión Posparto/psicología , Femenino , Humanos , Periodo Posparto , Embarazo , Estudios Prospectivos , Calidad de Vida , Conducta Sexual/psicología , Disfunciones Sexuales Fisiológicas/epidemiología , Encuestas y CuestionariosRESUMEN
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of stress management training on the perceived stress, anxiety and hopelessness levels of women with high-risk pregnancy. The sample of this experimental study consisted of 206 high-risk pregnant women (intervention = 103; control = 103). Data were collected using a Personal Information Form, the Perceived Stress Scale, the Beck Hopelessness Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. In the second follow-up after the training, there was a statistically significant difference amongst the Perceived Stress Scale, Beck Hopelessness Scale and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory mean scores in the intervention and control groups (p < .05). Perceived stress scores of the control group who did not receive training during discharge increased. The state and trait anxiety scores and hopelessness scores of the intervention group received training decreased compared with the control group.IMPACT STATEMENTWhat is already known on this subject? Mental problems such as anxiety and stress are more common in high-risk pregnancies compared with healthy pregnancies.What do the results of this study add? After the training 51.4% of women in the intervention group, 75.7% of women in the control group had stress. The state and trait anxiety and hopelessness scores of the intervention group having training decreased compared to the control group.What are the implications of these findings for clinical practice and/or further research? Health professionals should provide stress management training in high-risk pregnant women to reducing perceived stress, anxiety and hopelessness levels.
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Terapia Centrada en la Emoción/métodos , Complicaciones del Embarazo/terapia , Embarazo de Alto Riesgo/psicología , Atención Prenatal/métodos , Estrés Psicológico/terapia , Adulto , Ansiedad/psicología , Ansiedad/terapia , Reposo en Cama/psicología , Depresión/psicología , Depresión/terapia , Femenino , Hospitalización , Humanos , Embarazo , Complicaciones del Embarazo/psicología , Mujeres Embarazadas/psicología , Escalas de Valoración Psiquiátrica , Autoimagen , Estrés Psicológico/psicología , Resultado del TratamientoRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Pregnancy is a very important period in the development of attachment. OBJECTIVE: To determine the correlation between prenatal attachment levels of healthy pregnant women and their styles of coping with stress and those of high-risk pregnant women. METHOD: This descriptive study consisted of 76 women in their third-trimester of pregnancy hospitalised at the Obstetrics and Gynaecology service at a hospital and 210 women in their third-trimester of pregnancy who were experiencing a healthy pregnancy process and admitted to the Gynaecology Outpatient Clinic for pregnancy follow-up. The data were collected with the Personal Information Form, the Prenatal Attachment Inventory and the Stress Coping Styles Scale. RESULTS: There was a statistically significant difference between the prenatal attachment levels of healthy and high-risk pregnant women. There was a positive correlation between the prenatal attachment levels and the self-confident and optimistic approaches among the styles of coping with stress in the healthy and high-risk pregnant women . CONCLUSION: The attachment levels of the high-risk pregnant women were higher than were those of the healthy pregnant women. As the use of the self-confident and optimistic approach styles in coping with stress increases among healthy and high-risk pregnant women, so do their prenatal attachment levels.
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Adaptación Psicológica , Mujeres Embarazadas , Femenino , Estado de Salud , Humanos , EmbarazoRESUMEN
PURPOSE: This study's purpose was to determine the attitudes of students studying in various fields related to health services towards gender roles and intimate partner violence. DESIGN AND METHODS: The descriptive study sample was composed of 441 volunteer students. The data were collected by the Intimate Partner Violence Attitude Scale-Revised (IPVAS-R) and Gender Roles Attitude Scale (GRAS). FINDINGS: The GRAS and IPVAS-R mean scores were 114.10 (18.00) and 57.77 (4.45), respectively. A statistically significant negative relationship was found between the IPVAS-R and GRAS total mean score. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: The participants with negative attitudes allowing the violence also had more traditional attitudes towards gender roles. It is important to train health professionals with attitudes that believe in gender equality and reject violence to improve the quality of health services.
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Rol de Género , Violencia de Pareja , Actitud , Servicios de Salud , Humanos , EstudiantesRESUMEN
Purpose: The aim of this study is to train midwifery students on electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) within the scope of the course and then to evaluate their pre- and post-course EFM knowledge and EFM interpreting skills.Methods: This interventional study was carried out at the Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences. The study population comprised of the senior (last-year, 4th-year) students who attended the Midwifery Department of the Faculty of Health Sciences during the academic years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. Of the 4th year students in the midwifery department, 42 who attended the school during the academic year 2015-16 and 61 who attended the school during the academic year 2016-2017 and accepted to participate in the study comprised the study sample.Results: The difference between the pre- and post-EFM course scores was statistically significant (p<.05). While the mean score obtained by the students before the EFM course was 55.29 ± 11.17, it was 76.15 ± 6.72 after the EFM course. Analysis of the success rates of the midwifery students in the EFM/NST course demonstrated that 80.6% of the students were successful.Conclusions: The findings of the study demonstrated that the participants' postcourse EFM knowledge and trace interpretation skills were better than their precourse EFM knowledge and trace interpretation skills.
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Cardiotocografía , Partería , Femenino , Humanos , EmbarazoRESUMEN
The aim of this study was to examine the sexual experiences and quality of life in women using methods of contraception. The sample of this descriptive study consisted of 259 women. The data were collected by the Personal Information Form, the Arizona Sexual Experiences Scale (ASES) and the World Health Organisation Quality of Life Scale (WHOQOL-BREF). It was found that 35.1% of the women use condoms, 30.1% of them use the Intrauterine Device (IUD), 22.0% had problems using the method and 39% had the side effects while using the method. There was a statistically significant difference between the state of having problems using the methods and quality of life average scores and between the state of having side effects and sexual life and quality of life average scores (p < .05). Impact statement What is already known on this subject? Sexual problems are common health problems among women and can lead to loss of self-esteem in women, depression and emotional stress. What do the results of this study add? Women who experience problems using a contraception method have a lower quality of life. Sexual dysfunctions were higher among those who experienced side effects of the methods, quality of life scores were lower. What are the implications of these findings for clinical practice and/or further research? Health professionals should provide information and counselling about possible problems or side effects and ways to cope with these problems or side effects.
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Anticoncepción/efectos adversos , Anticoncepción/métodos , Calidad de Vida , Disfunciones Sexuales Fisiológicas/epidemiología , Adulto , Condones/efectos adversos , Femenino , Humanos , Dispositivos Intrauterinos/efectos adversos , Orgasmo , Conducta Sexual/fisiología , Conducta Sexual/psicología , Disfunciones Sexuales Fisiológicas/etiología , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , Turquía/epidemiologíaRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Bonding is the process of an emotional relationship between mothers and babies. Pregnancy and postpartum periods are most important of developing a mother-child bonding. Here we aimed to determine the level of mother-baby bonding and identify the influencing factors during pregnancy and the postpartum period and to examine the relationship between bonding level during pregnancy and the postpartum period. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional descriptive study included twelve districts across a range of socioeconomic structures. Every district was selected by a simple random sampling method. Data were collected with Prenatal Attachment Inventory, Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale, Center for Epidemiologic Studies' Depression Scale and Beck Anxiety Inventory. The study included two home visits. The first visit at gestational age ≥35 weeks and second visit on the seventh or eighth day of the postpartum period. The study was conducted with 227 pregnant women. RESULTS: We found that, 50.7% pregnant women had prenatal depression and 36.6% pregnant women had postpartum depression. We detected a negative association between depression level during pregnancy and the postpartum period with mother-baby bonding in the postpartum period (r=0.174, p=0.009; and r=0.221, p=0.001, respectively). A negative correlation was detected between anxiety level and mother-baby bonding level in the postpartum period (r=0.151, p=0.023). It was found that when the prenatal attachment level increases, the level of postpartum bonding is also increases (r=0.297, p=0.000). CONCLUSIONS: Depression and anxiety levels were higher during pregnancy than the postpartum period. Depression level during pregnancy and postpartum period depression and anxiety level negatively affected mother-baby bonding in the postpartum period. We found that as prenatal attachment level increases, the level of postpartum bonding also increases.
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Depresión Posparto , Relaciones Madre-Hijo , Apego a Objetos , Periodo Posparto , Niño , Estudios Transversales , Femenino , Humanos , Lactante , Madres , EmbarazoRESUMEN
Lesbians and gay men are subjected to negative attitudes and poor quality health care by midwives in the process of having children and by nurses in the process of receiving general health care services. Our aim was to investigate midwifery and nursing students' attitudes towards lesbians and gay men and their opinions about health care approaches displayed towards them. The study was designed as a cross-sectional and descriptive one and conducted in one midwifery and two nursing schools in a city in Turkey and comprised 1321 students. To assess the participants' attitudes, the Attitudes toward Lesbians and Gays (ATLG) Scale was used. To assess opinions about health care approaches, the students were asked open-ended questions. All the participating students' attitude scores were below the average and they exhibited negative attitudes towards lesbians and gays. While very few of the participants had positive views about health care given to, most of them either had negative views or did not have any opinions. The midwifery students' attitudes were more positive than were those of the nursing students. Students' health care approaches towards lesbians and gay men were insufficient and negative. Educators need to develop training programs, which can help students gain cultural awareness of the health care needs of lesbians and gay men in different cultures before they graduate.
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Actitud del Personal de Salud , Atención a la Salud , Partería/educación , Minorías Sexuales y de Género/psicología , Estudiantes de Enfermería/psicología , Estudios Transversales , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , Turquía , Universidades , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
INTRODUCTION: Pregnancy is a period of important biological and psychosocial changes and a period that carries high risk of experiencing anxiety and stress. It is important to reduce the depression and stress that is experienced in this period or to reduce the severity of the stress and to increase the stress coping power of the pregnant women. The research was conducted to examine the effect of stress management training on pregnant women's depression, stress and methods for coping with stress. METHODS: Randomised controlled study of 202 pregnant women (experimental group: 103; control group: 99). The experimental group received stress management training and standard care; the control group received standard care. Data were collected using a Personal Information Form, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and ways of coping inventory (WCI). RESULTS: Both groups showed a decrease in average BDI score during the study; the decrease was greater in the experimental group (p < 0.05). In the two assessments carried out after training the experimental group had lower average PSS scores than the control group (p < 0.05). At the second and third assessments the experimental group had higher scores than the control group on the self-confident approach and search for social support approach WCI subscales (ps < 0.05). DISCUSSION: The average BDI and PSS scores of pregnant women in the experimental group decreased after training in coping with stress. Their scores on the self-confident approach, optimistic approach and search for social support WCI subscales increased. Stress management training is an effective method of encouraging pregnant women to take a positive approach to coping with stress.