Joana Kathleen Aldinger, Harald Abele, Angela Kranz
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Abstract
Background/objectives: Prenatal psychology studies show that stress, depression, and psychological stress during pregnancy can have a significant impact on maternal and fetal health and are highly prevalent. The aim of the study was to compare maternal and neonatal short-term outcomes in pregnant women* (the asterisk (*) is used at the appropriate places in this text to indicate that all genders are included) with a history of prenatal maternal psychological stress (PMPS) with those of pregnant women* not exposed to PMPS to determine differences and identify risk factors.
Methods: Statistical tests for differences and relative risks between the groups were carried out with the perinatal data of University Hospital Tübingen from 2022 using IBM SPSS.
Results: The study shows that PMPS has significant negative effects on various parameters, including the rate of premature births, preeclampsia, induction of birth, birth duration, and fetal asphyxia, as well as the birth weight of the children and their Apgar values (an assessment of newborn health scored shortly after birth). In addition, the risk of PMPS increases in women* with stillbirths and two or more previous miscarriages. However, the practical relevance must be critically scrutinized and confirmed by bigger studies.
Conclusions: PMPS has a significant impact on the maternal and neonatal birth outcomes and must be identified as a risk factor in pregnancy. There is still a need for further research with larger samples, more balanced groups, and multivariate regression models to generate detailed, more transferable results and a deeper insight into the significant effects of PMPS and the role midwives can play in helping it.
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Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal (free for readers), which publishes original theoretical and empirical work in the interdisciplinary area of all aspects of medicine and health care research. Healthcare publishes Original Research Articles, Reviews, Case Reports, Research Notes and Short Communications. We encourage researchers to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. For theoretical papers, full details of proofs must be provided so that the results can be checked; for experimental papers, full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Additionally, electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculations, experimental procedure, etc., can be deposited along with the publication as “Supplementary Material”.