Thus, the aims of this study were to investigate the manifestation of paternal pregnancy-related worries in a population-based sample and to identify relevant associated factors. However, comparably little is known about the prenatal emotional well-being of fathers, particularly content and extent of broader paternal concerns that may arise during pregnancy beyond those focusing on childbirth. In addition, interventions on violence against women and social support for the women may reduce the problem.īackground: During the last decades, fathers have increasingly participated in prenatal care, birth preparation classes, and childbirth. The regional educational department should give emphasis for gender pedagogies which pay attention to the specific learning needs of girls. In this study, the prevalence of pregnancy-related anxiety was found to be high when compared to other study findings.

Having no formal education (AOR = 3.37 95% CI: 1.32, 8.58), primigravida (AOR = 1.94 95% CI: 1.17, 3.24), intimate partner violence (AOR = 2.88 95% CI: 1.47, 5.64), and poor social support (AOR = 2.05 95% CI: 1.18, 3.56) was significantly associated with pregnancy-related anxiety.

The prevalence of pregnancy-related anxiety was found to be 43.9% (95% CI: 39.5, 49.2). In this study, a total of 408 pregnant women participated, giving a 96.4% response rate. The adjusted odds ratio (AOR) with its 95% confidence interval (CI) at a p value of ≤0.05 was used to claim statistical association. Both bivariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses were undertaken to identify significantly associated variables with pregnancy-related anxiety. The collected data were entered with Epi-data version 4.6 and then exported to SPSS version 23. Data were collected sing a structured, pretested, and interviewer-administered questionnaire. A systematic random sampling technique was used to select the study participants. This study is aimed at assessing the magnitude of pregnancy-related anxiety and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal checkup at Debre Markos town public health institutions, Northwest Ethiopia.Īn institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 423 pregnant women at Debre Markos town, Northwest Ethiopia, from February 1st to March 30th, 2021. Pregnancy-related anxiety has been associated with many pregnancy adverse outcomes including preterm birth, low birth weight, postpartum depression, and resulting in long-term sequels on the child's emotional, cognitive, and behavioral development. PrA can be distinguished from general measures of anxiety in pregnancy in terms of longitudinal course, associated features, and prediction to postnatal mood disturbance, and may warrant specific clinical attention. The sample was at high psychosocial risk and ethnically diverse findings may not generalize to other samples. PrA was also distinguished from conventional symptom measures in its associated features and prediction of birth weight and postnatal mood. Two distinct factors of PrA were identified, indexing specific concerns about the child's health and about the birth these two PrA factors showed distinct longitudinal patterns in the prenatal period, and modest associations with general measures of anxiety and depression from questionnaire and clinical interview. Data relevant to psychosocial and obstetric risks were ascertained from interview, medical exam, and chart review. PrA was assessed at 20 and 32 weeks gestation anxiety and depression symptoms were assessed from questionnaire and from clinical interview at 20 and 32 weeks gestation and again at 2 and 6 months postnatally. In a high psychosocial risk, ethnically diverse sample, we examine the degree to which PrA is distinct from continuous and diagnostic measures of anxiety and worry in terms of longitudinal course, associations with psychosocial and perinatal risk, and prediction of postnatal mood disturbance.ģ45 women oversampled for prenatal anxiety and depression were selected from an urban obstetrics clinic serving a predominantly low-income, ethnically diverse population. Pregnancy-related anxiety (PrA) has attracted considerable research attention, but questions remain about its distinctiveness from conventional constructs and measures.

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