Quality of Life of Pregnant Women: Acceptance of Pregnancy and Its Relationship with Some Factors

Objective: This study was conducted to determine the relationship between the quality of life of pregnant women and the acceptance of pregnancy and some factors.

Methods: The data of the descriptive cross-sectional study were collected by interviewing 407 pregnant women who applied to the obstetrics clinic-outpatient clinic in a university hospital in the Central Anatolia Region between January and December 2021. “Personal Information Form,” “World Health Organization Short Form of Quality of Life Scale,” and “Prenatal Self-assessment Scale” were used to collect data. In the study, descriptive statistics, analysis of variance, Student’s t test, and Pearson correlation analyses were used to evaluate the data (p < .05).

Results: The mean scores of the sub-dimensions of the pregnant women’s quality of life scale were determined as 11.26, 12.61, 12.46, and 12.70, respectively. The mean score of the acceptance of pregnancy sub-dimension was determined as 43.25. It has been determined that educational status, income status, trimester, and number of pregnancies are factors affecting the sub-dimensions of quality of life. It has been determined that there is a positive relationship between acceptance of pregnancy and quality of life.

Conclusion: It was determined that the quality of life of the pregnant women participating in the study was affected by some socio-demographic and obstetric factors, and there was a positive relationship between acceptance of pregnancy and quality of life. It is recommended that midwife and nurses provide counseling to increase the quality of life of pregnant women.

Cite this article as: Yılmaz, F. A. (2022). Quality of life of pregnant women: Acceptance of pregnancy and its relationship with some factors. Journal of Midwifery and Health Sciences., 5(3), 93-98.