Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF BASIC AND CLINICAL HEALTH SCIENCES, sa.1, ss.186-195, 2023 (ESCI)
Purpose: The study was conducted to examine healthy lifestyle behaviors and perceived prenatal stress levels, affecting factors, and the relationship between healthy lifestyle behaviors and perceived prenatal stress levels in obese pregnant.Material and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted with 159 primipara pregnant who were gestational week>37th, prepregnancy BMI>30 kg/m2, and applied to the obstetrics clinic of a university hospital in Izmir between December 2020 and July 2021. Data were collected using the Individual Identification Form, the Prenatal Perceived Stress Scale, and the Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors II Scale. The data of the study were collected in the interview room of the polyclinic in approximately 30 minutes by the self-report method. Descriptive statistics, non-parametric tests, and Spearman correlation analysis were used in the analysis of the data.Results: It was found that the Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors II Scale mean score of the obese pregnant was 107.4 +/- 14.7, PPSS mean total score was 3.4 +/- 0.8. It was found that as the age of obese pregnant women increased, the perceived prenatal stress levels decreased and HLB was more positive. It has been determined that the pregnant women who are high school graduates, have a good income, have a planned pregnancy and go to control during their pregnancy have lower prenatal stress levels and more positive health lifestyle behaviors. It was determined that there was a negative, significant and high correlation (r=-0.715; p< 0.001) between the mean total score of the Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors II Scale for obese pregnant and the mean scores of the Prenatal Perceived Stress Scale.Conclusion: With a multidisciplinary team, care should be given to obese pregnant to gain healthy lifestyle behaviors and to avoid or manage stress.