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Quality of Life of Women after Giving Birth: Associated Factors Related with the Birth Process.

ABSTRACT: The World Health Organization (WHO) considers quality of life a fundamental indicator. The effect of birth on women's long-term quality of life (QoL) has barely been studied. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors related with the pregnancy, delivery and puerperium, and assess women's QoL after giving birth. A cross-sectional study with Spanish puerperal women was carried out; it collected data on socio-demographic variables, obstetric variables, newborn data, and several quality of life parameters. An ad hoc online questionnaire, including SF-36 (validated instrument to measure QoL), was used. Crude mean differences (MD) and adjusted mean differences (aMD) were estimated by multiple linear regression. A total of 2990 women participated whose overall QoL lowered with time until three years postpartum (p = 0.045). Caesarean section (aMD = -3.61, 95% confidence interval (CI): -5.07, -2.15), mother admitted to ICU (aMD = -4.81, 95% CI: -9.56, -2.68), newborn hospitalized (aMD = -2.10, 95% CI: -4.31, -0.13) or third/fourth degree perineal tears (aMD = -6.87 95%CI: -9.93, -3.82) were detected as risk factors that affect negatively and significantly on postpartum QoL scores. Women's postpartum QoL worsens with time. Some determining factors negatively influence postpartum QoL: Caesarean section, a mother´s admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) or a premature newborn.

SUBMITTER: Martinez-Galiano JM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6462924 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Quality of Life of Women after Giving Birth: Associated Factors Related with the Birth Process.

Martínez-Galiano Juan Miguel JM Hernández-Martínez Antonio A Rodríguez-Almagro Julián J Delgado-Rodríguez Miguel M

Journal of clinical medicine 20190307 3

The World Health Organization (WHO) considers quality of life a fundamental indicator. The effect of birth on women's long-term quality of life (QoL) has barely been studied. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors related with the pregnancy, delivery and puerperium, and assess women's QoL after giving birth. A cross-sectional study with Spanish puerperal women was carried out; it collected data on socio-demographic variables, obstetric variables, newborn data, and several quality ...[more]

PMID: 30866580

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Project description:BackgroundTo support women in making shared decisions, it is important to know what is relevant to them. The aim is to explore which of the options included in birth plans (BP) are of most interest to women, and which are more controversial. In addition, the possible association of this variability with personal characteristics.MethodsThe data are part of a cross-sectional descriptive study, carried out in xxx, on the clinimetric characteristics of two instruments to measure women's needs in labour and postpartum. Women were recruited consecutively by their midwives during pregnancy check-ups, receive a link to a digital questionnaire and were allowed to provide links to the questionnaires to other pregnant women. Women were asked to determine their level of agreement with statements about the birth environment, accompaniment, pain relief, medical intervention and neonatal care. The relationship between agreement with each statement, socio-demographic variables and fear of childbirth (W-DEQ-A) was analysed using a combination of descriptive statistics to analyse frequencies, and regression models to test the effect of socio-demographic variables and fear of childbirth on those items with the greatest variability.ResultsTwo hundred forty-seven women responded. More than 90% preferred a hospital delivery, with information about and control over medical intervention, accompanied by their partner and continuous skin-to-skin contact with the newborn. There are other questions to which women attach less importance or which show greater variability, related to more clinical aspects, like foetal monitoring, placenta delivery, or cord clamping… Various factors are related to this variability; parity, nationality, educational level, risk factor or fear of childbirth are the most important.ConclusionsSome items referring to the need for information and participation are practically unanimous among women, while other items on technical interventions generate greater variability. That should make us think about which ones require a decision after information and which ones should be included directly. The choice of more interventional deliveries is strongly associated with fear of childbirth.

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