A survey of the relation between certain common antenatal complications in primiparae and stressful life situations during pregnancy

Hetzel, Basil S.; Bruer, Brigid; Poidevin, L. O. S.

doi:10.1016/0022-3999(61)90044-7

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“…The finding that women who have under gone recent psychosocial stress have more obstetric complications than women who un dergo less psychosocial stress is consisted with the findings of Gorsuch and Key [1974], Nuckolls et al [1972], Newton et al [1979], Jones [1978], and Hetzel et al [1961].…”

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confidence: 92%

Psychosocial Stress and Its Relation to Obstetrical Complications

Georgas

Giakoumaki

Georgoulias

et al. 1984

Psychother Psychosom

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A Greek adaptation of the Schedule of Recent Experience of Holmes and Rahe was employed to study the relationship of psychosocial stress to symptoms during pregnancy, obstetric complications, family planning and breast feeding. An initial experiment with 130 pregnant women in the third trimester indicated that psychosocial stress was not related to education, whether they were from Athens or the provinces, nor age. The second experiment with 103 mothers 3 or 4 days after delivery indicated that high psychosocial stress is related to increased symptom scores during pregnancy and to obstetric complications. Symptoms were not related to obstetric complications, nor were family planning nor breast feeding. Psychosocial stress was also related to family planning and also to whether or not the mother breast fed.

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confidence: 92%

Psychosocial Stress and Its Relation to Obstetrical Complications

Georgas

Giakoumaki

Georgoulias

et al. 1984

Psychother Psychosom

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“…The incidence of vomiting is associ ated with emotionally disturbing events ex perienced during pregnancy. A significantly higher incidence of stressful life situations, 1. e. interpersonal, economic and occupa tional problems, was found in women with prolonged vomiting during pregnancy [9]. There seems little doubt that psychiatric fac tors must be implicated in at least a propor tion of cases of vomiting during pregnancy.…”

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Vomiting and Nausea in the First 12 Weeks of Pregnancy

Iatrakis

Sakellaropoulos

Kourkoubas

et al. 1988

Psychother Psychosom

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Vomiting and nausea occur in many pregnant women, in the first trimester of pregnancy, but the etiology of these symptoms is obscure. A specially constructed questionnaire was administered to 102 pregnant women, in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, in an effort to see with which factors these disturbing symptoms correlated. Our findings showed that vomiting and nausea correlated with: (1) unsuitable diet with big and rare meals; (2) poor communication with the husband; (3) poor communication with the obstetrician and; (4) stress, doubts and inadequate information about pregnancy, childbirth and health of fetus.

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“…Proinflammatory cytokines can promote preterm labor by triggering preterm contractions, encouraging cervical ripening, and causing rupture of the membranes [15,16]. Inflammatory pathways are also implicated in the development of gestational hypertension [17][18][19][20][21][22][23] and gestational diabetes [24]. Moreover, maternal inflammation has been associated with effects on fetal development including risk for neurobehavioral disorders and adverse metabolic changes [25][26][27].…”

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confidence: 99%