Effect of general intervention on the psychological state alleviation of healthy pregnant women
- VernacularTitle:综合干预对改善健康孕妇心理状况的作用
- Author:
Min DING
;
Jie YU
;
Hongwu SHEN
;
Dongmei GU
;
Zhijuan MAO
;
Chenmei WU
;
Meiyun SHEN
;
Aiping TANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Healthy pregnant women;
Psychological health condition;
General intervention;
Relaxation exercises for pregnant women
- From:
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing
2008;24(29):1-4
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To explore the effect of general intervention in improving the psychological condition of healthy pregnant women. Methods Totally 96 pregnant women who made prenatal visits in our obstetrics and outpatient department were divided into the control and the intervention group stochasti-cally. The intervention group started from first prenatal visit. The general intervention measures included cognitive intervention, the behavioral intervention, family coping intervention and psychological intervention with self-designed relaxation exercises. While conventional prenatal visit, propaganda and nursing were im-plemented to the control group.Self-made general questionnaire and symptom checklist 90 (SCL-90)were used to survey and analyze the results. Results Post-natal depression and anxiety of the control group was obviously higher than that of the prenatal. The Post-natal obsessive-compulsive symptom, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, hostility, terror and bigotry in the intervention group were greatly alleviated. Com-pared with the control group, obsessive-compulsive symptom, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, hostility and terror of the intervention group were significantly different (P<0.05). The depression improved while the difference was not evidently differenL Conclusions Delivery had great influence on the psychological status of women,especially anxiety and depression. General intervention measures like psychological relax-ation exercises can improve the psychological condition of healthy pregnant women obviously,especially de-pression.
