The Effect of Sleep Disturbance during Pregnancy on Maternal and Fetal Outcomes and its Related Nursing Management | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 12, Volume 11, Issue 2, June 2020, Page 170-184 PDF (388.29 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2020.94758 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Sahar Ali Osman Bakr; Neama Abd El-Fattah Abd El-Gawad; Hanan Fawzy Elsayed | ||||
| Maternal and New Born Health Nursing- Faculty of Nursing - Helwan University . | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Sleep disturbance during pregnancy is an essential part of public health and a key feature of human development .Aim of this study to assess the effect of sleep disturbance during pregnancy on maternal and fetal outcomes and its related nursing management Research design: Descriptive design Setting: Ante natal care unit at El Shiekh Zaied Hospital in Cairo city-Egypt. Sample: A purposive sample consisted of hundred pregnant women was selected according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. Tool: Data was collected through an interviewing questionnaire, The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Nursing management of sleep disturbance during pregnancy. Result: This study reveals that sleep disturbance during pregnancy affect on maternal and fetal outcomes and good maternal behavior from near half pre- intervention to majority in post intervention, The difference was highly significant statistically (P=0.000).Conclusion: The present study concluded that, the sleep disturbance during pregnancy already affect on maternal and fetal outcomes as: gestational hypertension and low birth weight. As well as the many of studied pregnant women’s behavior of nursing intervention was changed improvement in posttest compared with the pretest and showed highly significant statistically between pretest and posttest (P Value 0.000). The result of this study supports the research question Recommendations: Conducting comprehensive health educational programs to raise awareness and promote women’s health during pregnancy pertaining to sleep disturbances and healthy behavior to manage them. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| sleep disturbance; pregnancy; maternal and fetal outcomes | ||||
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