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Background: A woman is highly vulnerable to anxiety and stress during her pregnancy causing negative effect in somatic and psychological forms like Intrauterine growth restriction, low birth weight and pre-term birth in child. Maternal anxiety not only leads to adverse effect on pregnancy outcome but also de-creases maternal competence in childcare. Aims/Objectives: Determine the prevalence of antenatal anxiety among women attending Ashok Nagar UHC and identify the associated risk factors. Methodology: A cross sectional study was done for 3 months in 320 antenatal women attending antena-tal clinic at Ashok Nagar UHC. Data collection was done using a pre designed and pre tested question-naire. Results: Theprevalence of antenatal anxiety was 31.2%. Among them 30% had mild to moderate anxie-ty and only 1.2% had severe anxiety. Prevalence of anxiety was higher in younger women and with low-er literacy status. Conclusion: Antenatal anxiety is of major public health importance but its effect on mother is not con-sidered to be a serious issue in the society. There is a need for regular antenatal screening, assessment and treatment of antenatal anxiety.
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Objective:To investigate the occurrence of antenatal anxiety and possible influencing factors,and analyze its relationship with spontaneous delivery.Methods: 590 healthy puerperal women who delivered in Taihe hospital during Dec 2007 and Dec 2008 were randomly selected and investigated for their psychological status,with T-A1 anxiety scale and SDS depression scale employed.Results: 569 effective questionnaires were gathered,with 114 cases divided into the anxiety group and 159 cases into the depression group.Influencing factors of antenatal anxiety include fear of delivery,worry about the safety of babies,understanding of delivery knowledge,puerperal age,and the family financial status.Conclusion: Factors including a relatively older age of primipara,poor financial status,insufficient support from family,worry about the safety of oneself and baby,and fear for delivery pain all have close connections with antenatal mental disorders.Meanwhile,antenatal mental disorders have a direct influence on delivery quality and the choice of delivery modes,and increase the failure rate of spontaneous delivery.