| Summary: | This
study was performed to evaluate psychosocial health status and health practices
of pregnant women in Turkey. This
comparative descriptive study was
conducted at a pregnancy polyclinic of Zonguldak Maternity and Children's Hospital in T
between 12.04.2012 – 03.04.2013. A total of 1086 pregnant women
participated in the study. Data were collected by using
Pregnant Information Form, Pregnancy Psychosocial
Health Assessment Scale and Health
Practices Questionnaire in Pregnancy-II. Numerical
and percentage values, student t test, Mann Whitney-U test, One-Way Analysis of
Variance (ANOVA), Kruskal-Wallis variance analysis and correlation analysis were used for data
analysis. In this study, there
is a positive correlation between psychosocial health status and health
practices of pregnant women (p < .050). However,
psychosocial health status and health practices of pregnant women show significant
differences based on some characteristics of pregnant women such as age,
marital status, family type, education level, employment status, presence of
social insurance, economic income, number of children, number of abortion and
curettage, chronic disease status, BMI before pregnancy, number of pregnancy,
pregnancy planning status, complication associated with pregnancy and social
support (p < .050). Besides physical assessments, evaluation of
psychosocial health status and health practices of pregnant women, early
diagnosis of risky conditions and provision of protective and therapeutic
services are recommended during pregnancy follow-ups.
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