1Professor, Department of Nursing, Baekseok University, Cheonan, Chungnam, 31065 Republic of Korea
2Associate Professor, Seoul Women's College of Nursing, Seoul, 03617 Republic of Korea
*Corresponding Author: Yoon-Young Hwang, Associate Professor, Seoul Women's College of Nursing, Seoul, 03617 Republic of Korea, Email: hyy2115@hanmail.net
Online published on 8 August, 2019.
This study has been attempted to identify the pregnancy stress of Korean women by considering antenatal depression, maternal fetal attachment, and social support.
The data were collected by means of a questionnaire of 195 pregnant women between June 1 and August 30, 2018. Data were analyzed by frequency analysis, Cronbach's alpha coefficients, Pearson's correlation using SPSS 18.0.
The average score of pregnancy stress was 85.0, antenatal depression was 7.3, maternal fetal attachment 70.2, and social support 36.0. Pregnancy stress was significantly correlated with antenatal depression(r=.29, p<.001), maternal fetal attachment(r=-.23, p<.001), and social support (r=-.19, p<.001.). Pregnancy stress level was not significantly different depend on age, marriage age, pregnancy period, children, miscarriage experience, religion, educational level, vocational state, and household income.
These findings suggest that healthcare professionals have more attention about pregnancy stress, and they should provide pregnancy stress screening and intervention programs for management and prevention of pregnancy stress period during whole pregnancy period.
Pregnancy stress, antenatal depression, maternal fetal attachment, social support, pregnant women
