Psychosocial stress in high risk pregnancy

Comparison of Pregnancy Self-Care, Perceived Social Support and Perceived Stress in Low-risk and High-risk Groups

Background & objectives: Although, pregnancy and delivery are natural processes in woman's life, they are stressful experiences with emotional, physical and social changes. Woman’s response to pregnancy is affected by a variety of factors, among which pregnancy age can be considered as the most important factor with significant effects on pregnancy and delivery processes. This study was conduct...

Importance of Pre-pregnancy Counseling in Iran: Results from the High Risk Pregnancy Survey 2012

  Background To identify the prevalence of behavioural (Pre-pregnancy), obstetrical and medical risks of pregnancy in Iranian women.   Methods A total of 2993 postpartum women who delivered in 23 randomly selected hospitals of six provinces were enrolled in this nationwide cross-sectional study. A structured questionnaire was completed based on interviewees’ self-reports and medical record data...

Psychosocial stress and cervical neoplasia risk.

OBJECTIVE We assessed the association between psychosocial stress and preinvasive cervical neoplasia development controlling for HR-HPV infection. METHODS This case-control study enrolled low-income women receiving family planning services at health department clinics. There were 59 cases with biopsy confirmed HSIL and 163 with low-grade SIL and 160 controls with normal cervical cytology. A m...

Psychosocial stress and cardiovascular risk : current opinion.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Epidemiologic research of the last half-century has clearly shown that psychosocial factors related to the social environment, personality characteristics, and negative affect increase the risk of incident CVD and also impact prognosis of cardiac patients. Several mechanisms may explain this link, including a ge...

[High risk pregnancy].