Morales-Carmona F, Luque-Coqui M, Barroso-Aguirre J

Language: Spanish
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Page: 157-162
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ABSTRACT

Objective: To establish the prevalence of emotional alterations as well as to identify possible interaction with social and demographic variables and obstetric complications.
Material and methods: A 30 questions of General Questionnaire of Health of Goldberg (GQH) version was applied to 328 women who were at the women’s hospital for first time, in order to measure their emotional state. We considered “probable case” those women that answered positive 8 or more reagents in a positive way, in agreement with a calibration which was previously carried out in the institution.
Results: We found that the population’s apparent enough symptoms 52.1% to be considered “probable case”, being a major percentage in the obstetric patients (62.2%) than the gynecological patients. On the other hand, low scholarship was a good indicator of more psychological distress, as well as the number of children. We also realized that the patients without obstetric complications obtained higher scores in the GQH.
Conclusions: It is possible that the biggest psychological disturbance in the obstetrical patient, was explained based on the nuisances that arise in the pregnancy, and because this group course with high risk pregnancies. On the other hand, there is consistency in that the women with lower education and bigger number of children manifest more symptoms, this is accord with reported in the literature, that which is explained by a smaller capacity to make him in front of the problematic situations when having smaller resources to approach them.

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