The research on anxiety levels of the woman who have the risk of miscarriage

The study has been made to search the feelings and thoughts of the womenwho are under the risk of miscarriage and aims to point out their anxiety levels.In this research the participants have been chosen among the pregnantapplicants of Afyonkarahisar Kocatepe University Ahmet Necdet Sezer Practice andResearch Hospital, Maternity Ward and Afyonkarahisar Zübeyde Hanım Child andMaternity Hospital between July-August 2007.The subjects of the research are; 50 women who had the risk of miscarriageduring their pregnancy and 50 women who had a normal pregnancy period. Thestudy is evaluated in two groups which are called "research" and "control" group.The participants who had the risk of miscarriage in their pregnancy areinvolved in the first, research group and the participants living a normal pregnancyare observed in the second, control group. The pregnant ladies who havepsychological problems, periodic illness and obligation to a regular drug use havebeen deliberately excluded from the survey.%94 percent of the participants involved in the "research" group and %86 ofthe candidates observed in the "control" group are between 19-34 age level. Theaverage of the pregnancy weeks in the potential miscarriage risk group is 13,4±3,6and this rate is 13,5±3,0 for the normal pregnants' group. Also for both of the groups,%84 of the participants are housewives and all of them have been married.The survey consists of a questionnaire with 40 questions and a STAI(State Traid Anxiety) form of Spielberger to figure out the groups' anxiety level andcollect data. STAI form is the measurement that involves 20 items in and used inorder to reflect the state, continuity of the participants' anxiety level.Open and close-ended questions about women's demographic features, generalhealth datas, obstetric characteristics, feelings and thoughts on pregnancy and theirsituation in the hospital are aimed in the survey form.4Given information are analysed via SPSS for windows 11.5 (StatisticalPackage for Social Sciences) programme Pearson's Chi-Square (X2) test, ANOVAanalysis and student t-test are applied. Statistical meaningfulness is assumed asp<0,05.In the research it's found out that; state and continuity anxiety scores ofwomen who have the potential risk of miscarriage have been considerably highercompared to the women leading a normal pregnancy period. Also, State andContinuity Anxiety Scores of the pregnants within the risk group of miscarriage,who are supported by their families, have been lower than the scores of those whoare supported by health personnel. The result draws attention to the importance andpositive influence of the family support.