Course of maternal fatigue and its associated factors during the first 6 months postpartum: a prospective cohort study

Iwata, Hiroyasu; Mori, Etsuro; Sakajo, Akiko; Aoki, Kyoko; Maehara, Kunie; Koji, Takehiko

doi:10.1002/nop2.130

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“…Women in this study may be overwhelmed with their family's needs, and in the case of refugee women with a large family and large number of children, lack of resources and support, and having a new child. It is no surprise that these responsibilities drain their energy and cause fatigue (Iwata et al, 2018;Schmied et al, 2017).This study suggested that participants' energy and fatigue, and health in general were negatively affected by the increased number of children in the family; this may, in part, lead to increased financial burden. However, with increasing age and length of marriage, women usually develop better adaptation to the increased demands of the family.…”

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The health-related quality of life of Syrian refugee women in their reproductive age

Nabolsi

Safadi

Sun

et al. 2020

PeerJ

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Background Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) for refugee women in reproductive age is highly affected by physical, political, psychosocial and environmental conditions in countries of asylum. HRQoL is enormously affected by the satisfaction of this vulnerable group with the physical, psychological, emotional and social care services provided in this critical time. Therefore, this study aimed toassess the HRQoL among Syrian refugee women of reproductive age living outside camps in Jordan. Methods A cross-sectional correlational study was conducted with a convenience sample of 523 Syrian refugee women in the host communities in Jordan.Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) was measured using the short-form 36 (SF-36) questionnaire. Results Significant negative correlations were found between SF-36 individual subscales score and the length of marriage, the number of children, parity and family income. The strongest correlations were between pain scale and length of marriage (r = − .21), and between Energy/Fatigue and ‘number of children’ (r = − .21). Conversely, antenatal care was positively correlated with physical, role emotional, pain, and general health. Physical functioning and general health were predicted significantly with less years of marriage, younger age at marriage, less violence and by higher family income. Conclusion This study suggests low HRQoL scores for women of reproductive age across all domains. Several factors such as years of marriage, age at marriage, the number of children, violence, antenatal care and family income affected the women’s general health. The provision of appropriate and accessible reproductive and maternal healthcare services in antenatal visits is critical for ensuring the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of refugee women and their families.

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The health-related quality of life of Syrian refugee women in their reproductive age

Nabolsi

Safadi

Sun

et al. 2020

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“…This study also shows that primipara, but not multipara women, without functional support received more support from multidisciplinary agencies than those with functional support from their biological maternal grandmothers. A recent prospective cohort study demonstrated that primiparas suffer from a higher level of fatigue compared to multiparas shortly after delivery 20. Another survey of the perinatal mother–daughter relationship showed that more primiparas require their mothers’ perinatal help more relative to multipara women as parity is associated with the practical presence of grandmother perinatal support 4.…”

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<p>The Effect of Grandmothers’ Presence on the Provision of Multidisciplinary Perinatal Support for Pregnant and Postpartum Women with Psychosocial Problems</p>

Ogawa¹,

Hashimoto²,

Tanaka³

et al. 2019

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BackgroundPregnant and postpartum women with psychosocial problems are prone to face limited or absent perinatal functional support from biological grandmothers due to familial dysfunction. The study aimed to investigate whether the involvement and presence of biological maternal grandmothers providing practical support for their pre/postnatal daughters (ie, pregnant women) during the perinatal period may influence the number of support services provided by multidisciplinary agencies, including child consultation centers and municipal offices.Participants and methodsThis is a retrospective cohort study based on the medical records of all pregnant women with psychosocial problems that visited, gave birth, and received intervention from the hospital-based child protection unit at the Chiba University Hospital between February 2018 to March 2019. The primary outcome was to identify whether there was a difference in the number of multidisciplinary agencies providing perinatal support between pregnant women with and without the presence of functional support from biological maternal grandmothers during the perinatal period.ResultsWe identified 114 pregnant and postpartum women with psychosocial problems. Seventy-six of these participants (66.7%) had functional support from their biological maternal grandmothers during the perinatal period, and 38 participants (33.3%) did not. The number of agencies involved with participants who lacked functional support was significantly higher than participants with functional support (t(55.14) = 2.98, p < 0.01). This finding was consistent among pregnant and postpartum primipara participants (n = 70) (t(68) = 3.87, p < 0.001), but not multipara (n = 44).ConclusionThe findings indicate that the presence and functional support of biological maternal grandmothers influence the support that is needed from multidisciplinary perinatal support systems by pregnant and postpartum women with psychosocial problems. Primipara mothers without support from their own mothers may need greater multidisciplinary support.

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“…It is a critical period in life and will have a great impact on maternal health. [1][2][3] After childbirth, many women have some psychosocial problems, such as fatigue, 4 anxiety, 5 and depression. 6 The study of postpartum fatigue is particularly critical: on the one hand, postpartum fatigue is one of the common symptoms after childbirth.…”

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“…On the other hand, postpartum fatigue is not easy to detect and is often ignored by many people. 4 Around the 1990s, foreign scholars began research on postpartum fatigue. At present, there are many studies on postpartum fatigue in foreign countries, and relatively few in China.…”

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Analysis of status quo and research progress in nursing of postpartum fatigue: a literature review

Gai

Gao

Fan

et al. 2020

Frontiers of Nursing

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Postpartum fatigue is an important issue that threatens women’s health. The incidence of postpartum fatigue is high. Failure to intervene in time may lead to adverse outcomes such as postpartum depression, premature termination of breastfeeding, child abuse, and low infant development. This article reviews the concepts, characteristics, related factors, adverse effects, and interventions of postpartum fatigue. The aim is to improve doctors’ and nurses’ awareness of on postpartum fatigue in pregnant women, enrich the research content and methods, stimulate the interest of nurses, and actively carry out targeted intervention research to prevent or reduce the occurrence of adverse outcomes.

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Course of maternal fatigue and its associated factors during the first 6 months postpartum: a prospective cohort study

Cited by 36 publications

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The health-related quality of life of Syrian refugee women in their reproductive age

The health-related quality of life of Syrian refugee women in their reproductive age

<p>The Effect of Grandmothers’ Presence on the Provision of Multidisciplinary Perinatal Support for Pregnant and Postpartum Women with Psychosocial Problems</p>

Analysis of status quo and research progress in nursing of postpartum fatigue: a literature review

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