Quality of life in pregnant women

Abstract

Payesh2010; 9: 69-75Accepted for publication: 28 December 2008[EPub a head of print-7 March 2010] Objective(s): To assess quality of life in pregnant women.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of 600 pregnant women receiving prenatal care in health centers of Kashan University of Medical Science. The Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) was used to assess quality of life. Results: The lowest perceived well-being was role limitation due to physical problems 56.23 18.77 and vitality 56.40 18.07. The results indicated that women's scores on the SF-36 were correlated with age, gestational age, gravidity, education, income, wanted and unwanted pregnancy and satisfaction with life (P<0.05).Conclusion: To improve guality of life in pregnant women it is important to improve background conditions for women.

Keywords

• quality of life
• pregnancy
• correlation factors