Relaxation on Pregnancy Outcome among Women with PIH

Abstract

Maternal stress and anxiety were found to be the predictors of adverse pregnancy outcomes including low birth weight and prematurity. The present study is aimed to evaluate the effect of relaxation programme on pregnancy outcome in terms of maternal and neonatal outcome among women with pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH). A pre experimental study with post- test only design was used. The dependent variable was pregnancy outcome among women with PIH and the independent variable was relaxation programme. The measuring instruments used were semi structured interview schedule on socio demographic and observation checklist to determine the pregnancy outcome. The study conducted on 400 women with PIH in Institute of Maternal and Child Health (IMCH) Kozhikode. A purposive sampling technique was adopted for selection of sample. The relaxation programme was administered through audio CD from Monday to Friday in the morning and evening for four weeks and pregnancy outcome was measured. The collected data were analysed by Chi square. The findings of the study was the mean post- test pregnancy outcome score in the experimental group was significantly higher than the mean post- test pregnancy score of control group with regards to maternal outcome in terms of Labour, type of delivery, complications, blood pressure, proteinuria and oedema. The neonatal outcome in terms of birth weight, Apgar score, complications and still birth(p<0.05) among women with PIH. The findings of the present study revealed that a positive pregnancy outcome is significantly influenced by relaxation programme among women with PIH.