Comparison of anxiety between normotensive and pregnancy induced hypertensive antenatal mothers.

Mrs. Chinmayee Behera; Dr. (Mrs.) Molly Babu

Volume : IV, Issue : VIII, August - 2015

Comparison of anxiety between normotensive and pregnancy induced hypertensive antenatal mothers.

Mrs. Chinmayee Behera, Dr. Mrs. Molly Babu,

Abstract :

A study was conducted to compare anxiety level of normotensive and pregnancy induced hypertensive antenatal mothers in a selected hospital of Delhi. One shot case study research design was adopted.The samples consisted of 30 normotensive and 30 pregnancy induced hypertensive antenatal mothers. The tools used were interview schedule and Modified C.D. Speilberger State Trait Anxiety Inventory Scale. The study was conducted in the antenatal wards of Safdarjung hospital, New Delhi from 15th December 2013 to 8th January 2014.Data collected from mothers after one day of giving information regarding self care during pregnancy. The major findings of the study were, The mean post–test anxiety scores (34.1) of pregnancy induced hypertensive antenatal mothers was higher than the mean post– test anxiety scores of normotensive antenatal mothers (33.97) with �t� value (0.058) which was not significant indicating no significant difference between anxiety levels of normotensive and pregnancy induced hypertensive antenatal mothers after giving information regarding self care during pregnancy. There was significant association found between post–test anxiety scores and parity of pregnancy induced hypertensive antenatal mothers.According to parity, multigravida pregnancy induced hypertensive antenatal mothers had more anxiety level then primigravida pregnancy induced hypertensive antenatal mothers.