Assessment of Social Factors Associated with Childbirth Satisfaction among Pregnant Women in Al-Nasiriyah City
Author(s): Hanadi Ali Mahnoosh* and Sarab Nasr Fadhil
Abstract
Background: Social factors affect women that may increase or decrease the risk of developing prenatal mental illness. These factors include poverty, lack of social support, gender and health of the child, quality of the relationship and exposure to traumatic experiences such as intimate partner violence, which are just a few of these factors AIMS: To assess pregnant women’s social factors associated with childbirth satisfaction at Al-Haboubi Hospital in Nasiriyah city, also explore its effect on women’ childbirth satisfaction, and to determine the relationship between pregnant women's social factors associated with childbirth and sociodemographic and reproductive data. Methodology: A descriptive correlational design is conducted at Al-Haboubi Hospital in AL-Nasiriya city to assess social factors associated with childbirth satisfaction among pregnant women from 19th December 2021 to 1st April 2022. The researcher designed the questionnaire to measure the purpose of the study. A convenient sample was selected consecutively from (100) pregnant women for an interview between the researcher and the pregnant woman before giving birth. In addition, communication is done by telephone after the birth for two weeks, and the discussion is conducted in the maternity hall. The data collected by use a questionnaire, which consists of four parts: the first part includes the sociodemographic characteristics: the second part includes reproductive characteristics: the third part consists of the social factors: the fourth part consists of the Mackey childbirth satisfaction scale. The information was analyzed in this study by using a statistical package for the social science program (IBM SPSS) version 24.0 Results : The result showed that social-related factors among pregnant women; (81%) of them are reported that their husbands want this pregnancy, but (51%) of them reported that their unplanned pregnancy; (85%) of them are reported they have support from their husbands and relatives; (48%) of pregnant women were fear of their husband’s reaction about the newborn gender, the factor of having obstacles to visiting health centers had the highest percentage it accounted for (49%) , In addition to that there is association between social factors related to barriers of health care visits and childbirth satisfaction among pregnant women as indicated by significant difference at (p-value=.003) while no effect is seen with remaining social factors, and significant differences with the residential environment at (p-value=0.020). also the study result found that there is highly significant differences between social factors and gravida, para, and the number of a lived child at (p-value=0.001), and significant differences with the duration of labor at (p-value=0.014). While there are no statistically significant differences with leftover reproductive parameters. Conclusion: The study found social factors related to barriers of health care visits significantly affect childbirth satisfaction among pregnant women. Also, the study found an association between social factors and some socio-demographic and reproductive characteristics. Recommendations: Study findings and conclusions have led researchers to recommend the attempts should be made to bring change in reducing unwanted pregnancy by conducting further studies.