Relationship Between Prenatal Stress With Maternal-Fetal Attachment And Spiritual Health in Pregnant Women Attending Health Centers In The City Of Qazvin In 2015

Background and Objective: Spiritual health and maternal-fetal attachment behaviors are considered as beneficial coping strategies for improving mental health and adaptation to prenatal stresses. The present study was conducted to determine the relationship of prenatal stresses with maternal-fetal attachment and spiritual health in pregnant women attending health centers in the city of Qazvin in 2015. Materials and Methods: The present descriptive study recruited 200 pregnant women attendinghealth centers in Qazvin, selected by multistage sampling method. Data were collected using Palutzin & Ellison s spiritual well-being scale, Cranley s maternal-fetal attachment scale, and demographic, obstetrics and prenatal stress questionnaire, and analyzed in SPSS-20. Results: Positive and significant relationships were observed between attachment and total score of stress and its dimensions including other people s ideas, religion, and health, and also between stress and self-sacrifice (an attachmentdimension) (P<0.05). There were also significant relationships between religious health and stress, and between spiritual health and financial/personal/family dimensions of stress (P<0.05). Conclusion: Most study subjects had moderate levels of stress, and stress had a significant relationship with attachment behaviors and religious health. This relationship can be considered a guide for providing appropriate midwifery cares and preventing prenatal mental disorders.

کلیدواژه ها:

stress ، Health ، Attachment ، Pregnancy