The Influence of Pregnancy Stress, Anxiety, and Sense of Mastery on Family Function in High-Risk Pregnant Women
AUTHORS
Sunghee Lee,Professor, College of Nursing, The Research Institute of Nursing, Kyungpook National University, 680, Gukchaebosang-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu 41944, Korea
Eunyoung Lee,Doctoral Student, Graduate School of Nursing, Kyungpook National University,680, Gukchaebosang-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu 41944, Korea
ABSTRACT
The present study aimed to identify factors that influence family function among high-risk pregnancy women. The study subjects included 91 high-risk pregnant women who were diagnosed with high-risk pregnancy during 20~38 weeks of gestation in three university hospitals in B, D, Y cities between March 3, 2015 and March 30, 2015, and visited obstetrics and gynecology outpatient clinics for prenatal examinations or entered delivery rooms. Collected data were analyzed by using IBM SPSS Statistics 22 software, mean and standard deviation, and tested using t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s correlation coefficients. A multiple regression analysis was performed to identify factors that influence family function among the participants. The study result showed that pregnancy stress (r=-.556, p<.001) and anxiety (r=-.576, p<.001) were significantly negatively correlated with family function while sense of mastery (r=.550, p<.001) was significantly positively correlated with family function. Anxiety (β=-.312, p=.007), sense of mastery (β=.259, p=.010), gestational age (β=-.255, p=.002), and pregnancy stress (β=-.216, p=.037) were identified as factors that influence family function, and they explained 47.4% of the entire model. This study suggests the need for development and application of nursing intervention programs that can reduce pregnancy stress and anxiety and increase sense of mastery in pregnant women by providing prenatal care, and thereby improve family function among high-risk pregnant women.
KEYWORDS
Anxiety, Family function, High-risk pregnancy, Pregnancy stress, Sense of mastery
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