Socio-Demographic Attributes and Knowledge of Pregnancy Induced Hypertension Among Antenatal Mothers in Lahad Datu Sabah: A Pilot Study

Pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) management: A concept analysis

“…Through a detailed review of literature, the following antecedents were identified which are, environment stressors which include the physiological aspect, and as well of comprise socio-cultural, these have the ability to disrupt the steadiness of client's health status. The present study's environmental stressors that can cause PIH constitute three phases which are, sociodemographic (Mulud et al, 2018) [12] , maternal features and environmental features for example, affordability, availability, accessibility, as well as staffing and staff`s way of think and cultural practices. Although healthcare services are affordable, the sociocultural status of the women in developing nations results in limited access to healthcare resources as well as health information.…”

“…Step 4: Determine the defining attributes or characteristics Walker and Avant, (2005) [22] defined attributes as traits or characteristics of a concept and these help in differentiating a particular thought from any other associated concept or theory. Therefore the attributes of pregnancy induced hypertension are being pregnant, lack of adequate knowledge of PIH, age, educational level, period of gestation, number of children with knowledge of PIH in antenatal mothers (Mulud et al, 2018) [12] . Lack of exercises is a major cause of hypertension.…”

“…It has been realised that PIH usually affect young women with the first pregnancy, pregnant women who are younger than 20 years as well as those pregnant women who are above 40 years (Pswarayi, 2010 and Mulud et al, 2018) [12] .…”