Associate Professor,
*Addressfor correspondence Dr Munira Bashir Associate Professor,
Pregnancy which may be complicated by anemia, hypertension or diabetes delivers a preterm/under-weight baby who is at higher risk of early neonatal complications. Once the pregnant woman with high risk is identified, she needs comprehensive antenatal care. It is therefore imperative to implement and evaluate effectiveness of structured prenatal intervention on physical and physiological parameters of high risk pregnant women, thus improve their outcome.
To assess the effectiveness of prenatal intervention on physical and physiological parameters ofhigh risk pregnant women at 16 weeks ofgestation.
A quantitative approach and quasi experimental time series non-equivalent group design was used for present study. The data was collected from 291 subjects through purposive sampling technique by randomly allocated among experimental and control group
The results revealed that majority of subjects were diabetic and hypertensive. The results also evident that the mean weight and hemoglobin ofexperimental group was more mean systolic/diastolic blood pressure and mean fasting blood sugar of experimental group was less on post tests as compared to their pretest value. In associating peri-natal outcome with risk factor of pregnancy, the findings revealed significant association ofgain in weight with diabetic subjects than anemic subjects.
The study concluded that the effectiveness of intervention program which enabled subjects of experimental group to attain desirable perinatal outcome. In associating perinatal outcome with risk factor ofpregnancy, the findings revealed significant association of gain in weight with diabetic subjects than anaemic subjects which may be probably due to high glycaemic levels.
High risk pregnant women, Structured prenatal intervention, Physical and physiological parameters, perinatal outcome
