Association between self esteem and anxiety levels in high-risk pregnant women in a reference maternity hospital in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Association between self esteem and anxiety levels in high-risk pregnant women in a reference maternity hospital in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Received 07th March, 2020; Received in revised form 26th April, 2020; Accepted 08th May, 2020; Published online 25th June, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Liniker Scolfild Rodrigues da Silva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: To evaluate the association between self-esteem and anxiety in pregnant women admitted to a high-risk sector. Methods: Quantitative, cross-sectional, observational study. Data were collected through interviews with pregnant women admitted to the high-risk maternity ward, from April 1 to June 31, 2016. The sample totaled 112 women and was by convenience. Results: Of the women, 72.3% presented low self-esteem and significant correlation with educational level (p = 0.004). The anxiety was 60.7% and the religion was the only variable with a significant association (p = 0.04). There was no significant association (p> 0.05) between the pattern of self-esteem and levels of anxiety for the fixed margin of error (5%). Conclusion: The impaired self-esteem was present in most of the women in this study, especially with low level of schooling. The anxiety was present in the majority of women, and there was an association between it and lack of religious practices. In this study, there was no significant correlation between self-esteem and anxiety. There is need to consider the two cases separately for a complete women’s health promotion practice.
