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Gebelerde Algılanan Sosyal Destek Düzeyinin Distres, Depresyon ve Uyku Kalitesi ile İlişkisi
The Relationship Between Perceived Social Support Level and Distress, Depression and Sleep Quality in Pregnant Women
Hacer ALAN DİKMENa
aSelçuk Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi, Ebelik Bölümü, Konya, TÜRKİYE
Turkiye Klinikleri J Health Sci. 2020;5(3):450-9
doi: 10.5336/healthsci.2019-71676
Article Language: TR
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 Amaç: Bu çalışma, gebelerin algıladığı sosyal destek düzeyinin gebelerin distres, depresyon ve uyku kalitesi ile ilişkisinin incelenmesi amacıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Gereç ve Yöntemler: Tanımlayıcı türde olan çalışmanın verileri 1 Temmuz 2019-15 Ağustos 2019 tarihlerinde kişisel bilgilerin yer aldığı kişisel bilgi formu, Tilburg Gebelikte Distres Ölçeği (TGDÖ), Beck Depresyon Envanteri (BDE), Çok Boyutlu Algılanan Sosyal Destek Ölçeği (ÇBASDÖ) ve Pittsburgh Uyku Kalitesi İndeksi (PUKİ) ile 259 gebeden toplandı. İstatistiksel verilerin analizinde tanımlayıcı istatistiklerle birlikte Spearman korelasyon analizi, Linear ve çok değişkenli regresyon analizi kullanıldı. Bulgular: Çalışmaya katılan gebelerin yaş ortalaması 27,92±5,75, gebelik haftası ortalaması 32,75±5,91 idi. Çalışmamızda, gebelerin ÇBASDÖ ile PUKİ-uyku bozukluğu (p=0,018) ve TGDÖ-olumsuz duygulanım alt boyutu arasında anlamlı, zayıf, negatif yönlü (p=0,016), ÇBASDÖ ile TGDÖ-eş katılımı alt boyutu ve BDE arasında negatif yönlü, orta düzeyde, istatistiksel olarak anlamlı ilişki saptandı (p<0,001). Sonuç: Çalışmada, gebelerin algıladıkları sosyal destek düzeyi yükseldikçe uyku kalitesinin de yükseldiği, TGDÖ-olumsuz duygulanım, TGDÖ-eş katılımı ve depresyon düzeylerinin düştüğü saptandı. Kadın sağlığı hemşireleri ve ebeler doğum öncesi bakım hizmetleri kapsamında gebelerin algıladıkları sosyal destek düzeylerini, uyku kalitelerini, distres ve depresyon düzeylerini mutlaka değerlendirmeli ve risk altında olan gebeleri erken tanı ve tedavileri konusunda bilgilendirmelidir.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Depresyon; distres; gebelik; hemşire; sosyal destek; uyku
ABSTRACT
 Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived social support level of pregnant women with distress, depression and sleep quality. Material and Methods: Data of the descriptive study were collected from 259 pregnant women via a personal information form including personal information, Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale (TPDS), Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI), Multidimensionally Perceived Social Support Scale (MDPSSS) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), between July 1st-August 15th, 2019. In the analysis of the statistical data, descriptive statistics, Spearman's correlation analysis, Linear and multivariate regression analysis were used. Results: The mean age of the pregnant women was 27.92±5.75 and the mean gestational week was 32.75±5.91. There was a significant, weak and negative correlation between the pregnant women's MDPSSS and PSQI-sleep disorder (p=0.018) and the TPDSnegative affection lower dimension (p=0.016) and a negative, moderate and statistically significant correlation between the MDPSSS and the TPDS-partner participation lower dimension and the BDI (p<0.001). There was a significant and positive correlation between the PSQI and the TPDS (p=0.005) and the BDI (p<0.001). There was a significant and positive correlation between the TPDS-partner participation lower dimension and the BDI (p<0.001). Conclusion: It was determined that as perceived social support levels of the pregnant women increased, sleep quality increased; whereas the TPDS-negative affection, TPDS-partner participation and depression levels decreased. As the pregnant women's sleep quality worsened, their distress and depression levels increased. Women's health nurses and midwives should certainly evaluateperceived social support levels, sleep quality, distress and depression levels of pregnant women and inform those under risk concerning early diagnosis and treatments, within the scope of prenatal care services.

Keywords: Depression; distress; pregnancy; nurse; social support; sleep
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We recommend you to read the terms of use below before you visit our website. In case you agree these terms, following our rules will be to your favor. Please read our Terms of Use thoroughly.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com website belongs to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. and is designed in order to inform physicians in the field of health

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot reach to user’s identity, address, service providers or other information. The users may send this information to the website through forms if they would like to. However, www.turkiyeklinikleri.com may collect your hardware and software information. The information consists of your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access time, and related websites. www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot sell the provided user information (your name, e-mail address, home and work address, phone number) to the third parties, publish it publicly, or keep it in the website. Gathered information has a directing feature to be a source for the website’s visitor profile, reporting and promotion of the services.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com uses the taken information:

-To enhance, improve and maintain the quality of the website

-To generate visitor’s profile and statistical data

-To determine the tendency of the visitors on using our website

-To send print publications/correspondences

-To send press releases or notifications through e-mail

-To generate a list for an event or competition

By using www.turkiyeklinikleri.com you are considered to agree that;

-Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. cannot be hold responsible for any user’s illegal and immoral behavior,

-Terms of use may change from time to time,

-It is not responsible for other websites’ contents it cannot control or the harms they may cause although it uses the connection they provided.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. may block the website to users in the following events:

-Information with wrong, incomplete, deceiving or immoral expressions is recorded to the website,

-Proclamation, advertisement, announcement, libelous expressions are used against natural person or legal identity,

-During various attacks to the website,

-Disruption of the website because of a virus.

Written, visual and audible materials of the website, including the code and the software are under protection by legal legislation.

Without the written consent of Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. the information on the website cannot be downloaded, changed, reproduced, copied, republished, posted or distributed.

All rights of the software and the design of the website belong to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. will be pleased to hear your comments about our terms of use. Please share the subjects you think may enrich our website or if there is any problem regarding our website.

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