An assessment of maternal quality of life in the postpartum period in southern Brazil: a comparson of two questionnaires
Clinics
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64(8): 751-756, 2009. tab
Article
in English
| LILACS
| ID: lil-523993
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
To assess maternal quality of life (QoL) during the postpartum period and to compare the performance of two QoL questionnaires across a sample of 101 women in southern Brazil. To our knowledge, this is the first study that measures maternal quality of life during the postpartum period in Brazil.INTRODUCTION:
There is limited information about postpartum maternal quality of life in Brazil. The are no Portuguese versions of instruments specifically designed to measure quality of life during the postpartum period.METHODS:
Research participants completed the Portuguese version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment-Bref (WHOQOL-BREF) and Multicultural Quality of Life Index (MQLI) questionnaires. The correlations between the MQLI and the discrete areas of WHOQOL-BREF were examined using Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficients.RESULTS:
We report a significant correlation between the global MQLI and the four domains of the WHOQOL-BREF scores (p < 0.01). An analysis of variance revealed a significant difference in mean scores in the Psychological and Environment domains according to different socio-economic strata F (3, 97) = 3.81, p = 0.012 and F (3, 97) = 4.03, p = 0.01, respectively.DISCUSSION:
The WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire may be more sensitive than the MQLI in detecting the impact of socioeconomic status on the QoL of postpartum women.CONCLUSION:
The sample of postpartum women evaluated in this study presented favorable QoL scores according to both the MQLI and WHOQOL-BREF questionnaires. Our results also indicate that the WHOQOL-BREF and the MQLI questionnaires have a significant correlation in terms of their assessments of postpartum mothers.
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Main subject:
Quality of Life
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Postpartum Period
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Mothers
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
Journal:
Clinics
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2009
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Australia
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Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Hospital Santa Casa de Misericordia/BR
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Universidade de Caxias do Sul/BR
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Western Sydney Area Health Service/AU
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