Pnm-4: Educational Effectiveness on The Emotion Recovery in Spontaneous Abortion

Background: Recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA), as a heterogeneous condition affects approximately 1- 3% of women in reproductive ages. Etiology of this frustrating disease in 40-50% is often unexplained. RSA as a traumatic event, especially with unclear etiology, could be followed by psychological squeal particularly anxiety. Emotion recovery, alongside investigation and medical treatment should be considered for these women. Coping strategies is one of apparatus to provide this aim. The study was carried out to assess whether education might induce coping strategies efficacy or not. Materials and Methods: Volunteers were 50 women with RSA history. They were between the 5th and 10th weeks of gestation. Participants answered “Cattlle’s Anxiety Questionnaire (CAQ)” and “Ways of Coping Questionnaire” .We compared their education levels with their anxiety level and coping manner. Statistical analysis was performed by SPSS (version 13). Results: Surveying coping style strategies and anxiety level by Pearson test, show that there is significant negative relation between them (p=0.008 and R= -0.411). Using ANOVA, guided us to significant relation between anxiety score and education (p=0.021).According to the statistical analysis revealed the positive relation between education levels and coping style strategies (p=0.001 and R=0.486). Conclusion: Problem - focused coping strategies associated with low anxiety. Considering to positive relation between coping and education, it seems that promoting personal insight helps to reduce the anxiety in these patients. It is well known that some patients suffering from RSA may present with psychological disorders especially anxiety. In summary, coping strategies and education as a network has been proposed to contribute to decline emotion storm.