Explore The Perceived Anxiety Related To Pregnancy Outcome Among Primiparous Couples During Third Trimester

Abstract

A sequential explanatory design research was conducted to explore the perceived anxiety related to pregnancy outcome among primiparous couples during third trimester from selected hospitals of Navi Mumbai. 100 primiparous couples were selected during their third trimester by non-probability purposive sampling technique. Data collection was done by using self-structured anxiety scale with 20 questions and later interviewed the samples by semi-structured interview till saturation of data is seen. Result revealed that the level of perceived anxiety among primiparous couple, majority 119 (59.5%) were having moderate anxiety, 44(22.0%) were having mild anxiety and 37(18.5%) were having severe anxiety. Mean anxiety score of wives was found to be 23.02+ 771and the mean anxiety score of husbands was 23.24+7.35. There was almost similar anxiety level among husbands and wives during their first pregnancy. No significant association between perceived anxiety related to pregnancy outcome among husband with their selected demographic variables except “Consanguineous marriage”. Qualitative analysis shows that majority of the couple were happy, majority had concern about safe delivery and child, healthy baby, and baby’s weight, and verbalized about coping strategies to overcome anxiety mostly was keeping silent and calm, meditation, talking with family and friends.