Relationship between Health Promoting Lifestyles and Perceived Stress in Pregnant Women with High Risk Pregnancy referring to High Risk Clinics, Tabriz, Al-Zahra and Taleghani Hospitals, 2014

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Abstract: Introduction: Lifestyle during pregnancy has long-term effects on health of mother and child. Having previous illness or unexpected maternal or fetal conditions can complicate pregnancy and interfere with health-promoting behaviors and cause stress might interfere with health-promoting behaviors. This study was carried out to examine the relationship between health-promoting lifestyles and perceived stress in women with high risk pregnancy.. Methods: This study is a descriptive correlation design that was conducted on 364 pregnant women with high risk pregnancy attending in the high risk clinics of Al-Zahra and Talegani hospitals in Tabriz 2014. Data gathering tools were three: demographics, health-promoting lifestyle (HPLP-II), and perceived stress questionnaires. SPSS Ver. 13 was used for data analysis. to analyze the data, descriptive statistics, including frequency distribution and distributional indices such as the mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics including Pearson test, t-test, ANOVA and multiple linear regressions - variables were used. Results: The mean (SD) of health promoting lifestyle among pregnant women with high risk pregnancy was 2.5 (0.4). Among the dimensions of health promoting life style, the highest mean score was for sub domain of nutrition, i.e. 2.9 (0.4), and the lowest score was achieved by the sub-domains of physical activity, i.e. 1.6 (0.6) and too mean score were avrage Health responsibility 2/7 (0.5), Spiritual growth 2/7 (0.6), Stress management 2/4 (0.5) and Interpersonal relationship 2/5 (0/5) . Educational level of women, Job of women, Job of husband, Sufficiency of family income ,Home situation,having history of preeclampsia, Self-reported health situation and Being interested to sex of fetus were of predictor factors health-promoting behaviors. The mean (SD) score of perceived stress was 26.4 (7.2). Job of women, Job of husband, Sufficiency of family income ,Home situation, , Self-reported health situation, Being interested to sex of fetus and pregnancy numbers were of predictor factors precived stress. There was reverse relationship p<0.001 between perceived stress and health -promoting behaviors. Conclusion: Based upon the results, health promoting behaviors were decreased by increment of perceived stress. so Regarding the existence of an inverse relationship between stress and health promotion behaviors, recommends the offer strategies for incresment improving health behaviors to reduce stress in high risk pregnant women.