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Advance Nursing Practice 2018

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Journal of Nursing and Health Studies

ISSN 2574-2825

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Aim:

This study aims to investigate the relationship between dyadic adjustment

and prenatal attachment in pregnancy.

Method:

This cross-sectional study was conducted on 195 women who applied

to outpatient clinics of gynaecology-obstetrics departments in a university

hospital in Edirne, Turkey. Data were collected using a survey form, dyadic

adjustment scale (DAS) and prenatal attachment inventory (PAI).

Results:

Average age was found to be 29.5±6.3 in pregnants and 32.2±7.2 of their

husbands. Of the 195 pregnants, 71.1% married to meet each other and average

marriage year was 7.1±6.4. Of the pregnants, 49.2% were in third trimester, and

71.6% planned pregnancy. Emotional support rate during pregnancy was found

as 83.8% and of which 77.7% from spouses, 74.1% from the family and 50.8%

from friends. The mean DAS score was 91.7±32.3, and mean PAI score was

64.9±21.2. There was a positive correlation between DAS scores and PAI scores

of pregnant women (r=0.8; p<0,001). There was found significantly higher DAS

and PAI scores among pregnants who were made love marry (p<0,001), planned

pregnancy (p=0,004), receiving emotional or physical support (p<0,001).

Conclusion:

When the dyadic adjustment increase among couples, prenatal

attachment increases, too. Dyadic adjustment and prenatal attachment are

higher among pregnants who were made love marry, planned pregnancy,

receiving emotional or physical support.

Biography

Burcu Kucukkaya has completed her MSc from Trakya

University in 2017 and pursuing PhD from the Department

of Women Health and Disease Nursing, Trakya University

and works as a Research Assistant at the same place. Her

interested areas are women health and diseases, gynecology,

obstetrics, family planning, fertility, urogynecology.

The relationship between dyadic adjustment and prenatal

attachment in pregnancy

B Kucukkaya, H Kahyaoglu Sut, S Oz and N Altan Sarıkaya

Trakya University, Turkey

B Kucukkaya et al., J Nurs Health Stud 2018, Volume: 3

DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C3-008