Social Support and Pregnancy

Dunkel-Schetter, Christine; Sagrestano, Lynda M.; Feldman, Pamela J.; Killingsworth, Christine

doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-1388-3_16

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“…Most of the women also had a dense informal support network that was primarily in close geographic proximity. The literature on social support has focused on the cultural dynamics involved in accessing support and found that these dynamics also determined membership in a network and the type of support sought and provided (Dunkel-Schetter, 1982;House, 1981;Wortman & Dunkel-Schetter, 1987). The informal supports the participants identified were individuals whom they perceived as responsive.…”

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confidence: 97%

Help Seeking: Perceived Risks for African American Women

Glass

2012

Affilia

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This article presents the findings of a qualitative study that explored the help-seeking pathways of seven African American women following a nonsexual criminal victimization. The help-seeking narrative was reconstructed by conducting in-depth interviews with the women and their identified informal and formal providers of support. The findings revealed that the chosen help-seeking pathway was influenced by each woman's appraisal of the perceived benefits and costs of seeking assistance. Implications for practice are discussed.

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Help Seeking: Perceived Risks for African American Women

Glass

2012

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“…It is a transition in life which brings many challenges [1,2], and for this reason, the care and support extended to women can impact greatly on their lives and contribute to how they experience the pregnancy [1–4]. Social relationships and support, both formal and informal, play critical roles in managing health and personal problems in pregnancy [5–7].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The support of the partner plays a crucial role [1,4,29], including in a woman’s decision to keep the pregnancy, as described in various studies around Africa [16,21,27,30]. We explore what pregnant women perceive and experience as care and support, with data illustrating the significance for pregnant women of having a network of people to enable them to cope with different stressors that arise during pregnancy.…”

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confidence: 99%

Personal support and expressions of care for pregnant women in Soweto, South Africa

Mlotshwa

Manderson

Merten

2017

Global Health Action

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Background: Pregnancy is life changing, making great demands on women to adapt physically, psychologically, and socially. Social relationships and the support that flow from these provide a critical role in managing health problems in pregnancy. Isolation and lack of care, in contrast, may lead women to experience increased distress during this time. Objective: This study aimed to explore South African women's perception and experience of care and support in pregnancy. Methods: A life history approach was employed to explore women’s experiences of pregnancy and sexual behaviour, with each participant encouraged to narrate important life events from her own perspective. We drew on narrative interviews with 15 pregnant women, conducted between July and October 2015, in which we explored questions regarding pregnancy planning and the provision and receipt of care. A thematic approach was employed to code and analyse the data. Results: Themes that emerged from the interviews showed that participants gained a sense of stability in their lives when they had support in their pregnancy, especially when dealing with challenging situations. This support came variously from family, friends, and social networks. Overall, those participants who mentioned the most support, and its diversity across different groups, reported a better experience of pregnancy. Conclusions: Women emphasised the importance of social and emotional support in pregnancy. Understanding women’s experiences can assist in making pregnancy less overwhelming, and can add to a woman’s ability to deal with different challenges before and after the arrival of the new baby.

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“…Social relationships in a pregnant woman’s life may buffer the effect of negative factors by shaping a mother’s perception of the availability of interpersonal support [2]. These social relationships likely also interact with health navigation and subsequent health-seeking behavior [5]. Presumably through a combination of these factors, women who both received more prenatal social support and who were more satisfied with that support reported fewer health problems during pregnancy, and experienced improved birth outcomes [3, 6].…”

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Measuring the Developing Therapeutic Relationship Between Pregnant Women and Community Health Workers Over the Course of the Pregnancy in a Study Intervention

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The Scale to Assess the Therapeutic Relationship in Community Mental Health Care (STAR) is a frequently-administered tool for measuring therapeutic relationships between clinicians and patients. This manuscript tested the STAR’s psychometric properties within a community health worker (CHW)-led intervention study involving pregnant and postpartum women. Women (n = 141) enrolled in the study completed the 12-item participant STAR survey (STAR-P) at two time points over the course of pregnancy and at two time points after delivery. The factor structure of the STAR-P proved to be unstable with this population. However, a revised 9-item STAR-P revealed a two-factor model of positive and negative interactions, and demonstrated strong internal consistency at postpartum time points. The revised STAR-P shows strong psychometric properties, and is suitable for use to evaluate the relationship developed between CHWs and pregnant and postpartum women in an intervention program.

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Social Support and Pregnancy

Cited by 101 publications

References 102 publications

Help Seeking: Perceived Risks for African American Women

Help Seeking: Perceived Risks for African American Women

Personal support and expressions of care for pregnant women in Soweto, South Africa

Measuring the Developing Therapeutic Relationship Between Pregnant Women and Community Health Workers Over the Course of the Pregnancy in a Study Intervention

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