Levels of anxiety in high-risk pregnant women
International Journal of Development Research
Levels of anxiety in high-risk pregnant women
Received 17th August, 2019; Received in revised form 26th September, 2019; Accepted 14th October, 2019; Published online 20th November, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Liniker Scolfild Rodrigues da Silva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: To identify the levels of anxiety in high-risk pregnant women. Methods: Cross-sectional study of quantitative-descriptive approach conducted with 112 pregnant women admitted to Agamenon Magalhães Hospital in Recife/PE in the period from April to June 2016. The data were processed in the programs Microsoft Office Excel and Word 2010, after individually applied, through tables, checked with descriptive statistics with values calculated in absolute frequency and analyzed according to national and international literature. Results: In this sample, the highest percentage, (39.3%) and (35.7%), were classified with no anxiety and mild to moderate anxiety, respectively, whereas 16.1% presented moderate to severe anxiety and 8.9%, severe. Conclusion: There was a relation between increased age and schooling of pregnant women in the group without anxiety, whereas in groups categorized with mild to moderate anxiety could be association with unplanned pregnancy or diseases during pregnancy, suggesting the need for strengthening of family planning by the family health strategy.
