A study on the psychosocial problems among antenatal women in selected community at Mangalore

Pregnancy is an unguent period of change for women that may have profound effect on their biological, psychological and social functioning. Most of women's behavior during the antenatal period is strongly influenced by her cultural background.

A descriptive survey approach was used in this study. The study was conducted in the selected community areas at Mangalore. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the samples. Data collection was done by using modified Antenatal Psychosocial Health Assessment (ALPHA) Rating Scale. The subjects consisted of 100 primigravida mothers. The data were analyzed by using inferential and differential statistics. The findings of the study revealed that there was significant association between the psychosocial problems and selected demographic variables like religion (test statistic value is 6.556 and P <0.05), education status (test statistic value is 11.427 and P <0.05), gestational age (test statistics is 10.905 and p<0.05) and health education (test statistics is 6.971 and p<0.05)