1. Well-being of primigravidae: AKolkata based correlational study.
- Author
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Bhattacharya, Sayantani and Das, Sanjukta
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WELL-being , *PREGNANCY & psychology , *PREGNANT women , *MENTAL depression , *ANXIETY , *PUBLIC health , *MENTAL health - Abstract
Pregnancy is a turning point in a women's life that is marked by innumerable metamorphoses in different spheres of life. The effects of some of these are transitory and some are permanent. Such period of crisis needs intense review to get a clearer picture of this central milestone of a woman's life. The present study was designed to assess the psychological conditions affecting the pregnancy period of primigravidae for which 46 primigravidae were reviewed on factors like anxiety, depression, happiness, different factors of personality and general well being, twice once in their first trimester and again in their third trimester of pregnancy. For the analyses of the data product moment correlation and stepwise multiple regression analyses was done with the help of SPSS package. The findings revealed happiness as the most positive factor of general well-being in both the trimester ofpregnancies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018