Nausea and Vomiting During Pregnancy: Effects on the Quality of Women's Lives

O’Brien, Beverley; Naber, Sarah

doi:10.1111/j.1523-536x.1992.tb00671.x

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“…Of 243 employed women in Vellacott's consecutive series of 500 NVP subjects, 47% felt that job efficiency was impaired and 25% took time off from work. 13 O'Brien et al 14 found that 120 of 147 women (83%) stated that NVP affected their ability to perform usual daily activities. Because these statistics reflect the morbidity of NVP, they are likely to be gross underestimates of the effect that HG has on a pregnant woman's daily life.…”

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The psychosocial burden of hyperemesis gravidarum

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Objective: To describe the psychosocial burden of hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) in a large cohort of affected women, focusing on previously unreported problems. Result: Of the 808 participants, 626 (77.5%) were American. A large majority (82.8%) reported that HG caused negative psychosocial changes, consisting of (1) socioeconomic changes, for example, job loss or difficulties, (2) attitude changes including fear regarding future pregnancies and (3) psychiatric sequelae, for example, feelings of depression and anxiety, which for some continued postpartum. Women who reported that their health-care provider was uncaring or unaware of the severity of their symptoms were nearly twice as likely to report these psychiatric sequelae (odds ratio 1.86, 95% confidence interval 1.06 to 3.29, P ¼ 0.032).Conclusion: Over 80% of a large cohort of women with HG reported that HG caused a negative psychosocial impact.

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“…Women in that study also evidenced changes in their behaviors and in the way of dealing with motherhood, appointing differences between pregnancy, when the baby is still being generated, and when, after birth, (s) he is present in their lives; they strongly emphasized bodily transformations though, affirming a negative influence on their sexual life (15) .…”

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“…A study involving 147 pregnant women appoints that the symptoms deriving from the pregnancy period, associated with the digestive system, such as nausea and vomiting, caused limitations in the women's daily lives, affected comfort and also reflected in family members' lives (15) .…”

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Corpo e sexualidade na gravidez

Araújo

Salim²,

Gualda

et al. 2012

Rev. esc. enferm. USP

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RESUmoEstudo etnográfico que teve como objetivo compreender como as gestantes vivenciam os processos fisiológicos do seu corpo durante a gestação e a sua repercussão na sexualidade. A pesquisa envolveu sete mulheres residentes em bairro popular de São Paulo. Na coleta de dados, utilizou-se observação participante e entrevista com questões norteadoras. Os dados foram apresentados na forma de narrativa e posteriormente organizados nas categorias: Percebendo as transformações corporais; Convivendo com as mudanças no corpo; Sentimentos e sensações na vida sexual durante a gestação e imaginando o corpo e a sexualidade após a gestação. As mulheres referiram-se às transformações do corpo como desconfortos e expressaram a preocupação de que fossem definitivas. Expressaram o desejo de que, após o parto, o corpo volte a ser como era e que volte a sentir desejo sexual. O reconhecimento destes fatos constitui-se numa ferramenta primordial na adequação das práticas profissionais. Original article ABStRActThe objective of this ethnographic study was to understand how women experience their body's physiological processes during pregnancy and their effects on sexuality. The study involved seven women living in a poor neighborhood in São Paulo. Data collection was performed through participant observation and interviews using guiding questions. The data were presented in the narrative form and then organized into the following categories: realizing the changes in the body; living with the changes in the body; and feelings and sensations experienced in sexual life during pregnancy and imagining the body after pregnancy. The women referred to the changes in their bodies as discomforts, and expressed their concern that these changes would be permanent. They expressed they hoped that, after childbirth, their body would go back to what it was like before pregnancy and that they would recover their sexual desire. Recognition of these concerns is an essential tool to guarantee appropriate professional practices. dEScRiPtoRSHuman body Pregnancy Sexuality Sexual and reproductive health RESUmEnEstudio etnográfico que objetivó comprender el modo en que las gestantes experimentan los procesos fisiológicos de su cuerpo durante el embarazo y su repercusión en la sexualidad. Involucró siete mujeres residentes en barrio popular de São Paulo. Datos recolectados mediante observación participativa y entrevista con preguntas orientadoras. Los datos se presentaron en forma narrativa, y se organizaron luego en categorías: Percibiendo las transformaciones corporales; Conviviendo con los cambios del cuerpo; Sentimientos y sensaciones de la vida sexual durante la gestación e Imaginando el cuerpo y la sexualidad después de la gestación. Las mujeres se refirieron a las transformaciones del cuerpo como incomodidades y expresaron la preocupación de que fuesen definitivas. Expresaron el deseo de que después del parto el cuerpo volviese a ser como era, y sentir nuevamente deseo sexual. El reconocimiento de estos hechos se constituye en una herramienta primor...

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“…Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy not only affects the physical health of pregnant women, but can also negatively impact their family, social and occupational functioning [13], [14] . Furthermore, the degree of this negative impact seems to be associated with the severity of NVP [10], [15] .Severe and intractable NVP, hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), occurs in approximately 0.5-2% of pregnancies [16] , and studies specific to HG have also detailed the significant physical, psychological, social and economic toll [17], [18] . Health related quality of life measures the burden of illness.…”

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Health-related quality of life of women with nausea and vomiting in pregnancy attending a maternal clinic in Nigeria

Shalom¹

2016

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Abstract:-Purpose: This study evaluated the health related quality of life of women with nausea and vomiting of pregnancy attending a maternal clinic in Nigeria Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on women with nausea and vomiting of pregnancy(NVP) attending ante-natal clinic at a secondary health facility. The NVP-specific quality of life questionnaire developed for women within 12 weeks of pregnancy was used in this study with some modifications. A total number of 119 women made up the study sample. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 20.Mean scores were presented with standard deviations and domain scores were compared using the mean transformed scores. Results: One hundred and nineteen pregnant women who had NVP at the time of the study participated in the study. The mean total quality of life score was 112.16±33.3 and 53.7% had an average quality of life. Domains on Limitation had a mean transformed score of 27.90 while domain on Fatigue had a mean transformed score of 50.94 depicting better and worse quality of life respectively.Conclusion: The findings showed that women in this locality were able to carry out their normal daily activity irrespective of the impact of nausea and vomiting on them.Members of the healthcare team should however work at improving the quality of life of women with NVP in this locality.

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Nausea and Vomiting During Pregnancy: Effects on the Quality of Women's Lives

Cited by 173 publications

References 7 publications

The psychosocial burden of hyperemesis gravidarum

The psychosocial burden of hyperemesis gravidarum

Corpo e sexualidade na gravidez

Health-related quality of life of women with nausea and vomiting in pregnancy attending a maternal clinic in Nigeria

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