Common Pregnancy Related Health Problems Experienced by Pregnant Women at Selected Hospital in Dhaka

Abstract

Background: The most common pregnancy-related health problems are postpartum haemorrhage, hypertensive disorders (including pre-eclampsia & eclampsia), sepsis, abortion. Objectives: To identify the common pregnancy related health problems in different body region of pregnant women. To find out the gestational age when pregnancy related health problems arises more frequently. To determine about the frequency of treatment received by pregnant women for health problems. Methodology: Method of the study was a quantitative research model in the form of a prospective type survey and cross sectional study design was carried out in this study. The researcher used descriptive statistics in this research. Results: The participants 20 were in first trimester, 33 were in second trimester, and 27 were in third trimester of their pregnancy. Almost 21% of the participants were primigravida and rest 79% of the participants were multigravida in this study. The study result shows that a large number of participants 26.3% (24) complained of nausea, vomiting, hyperemesis gravidrum, morning sickness 40% (32) complained of back pain, 14.4% (13) complained of maternal bleeding, 11.5% (10) complained of abortion and 39.9% (30) complained oedema and rest of others had no complain, 33.8% (20) participants complained of hypertension, 11.5% (10) complain gestational diabetes, 26.7% (19) complain of pre-eclampsia, 12.8% (11) complain eclampsia, 9.2% (8) participants complain maternal sepsis and rest of others participants did not have complain during their pregnancy. Cross tabulation showed that the participants were complained of nausea, vomiting, hyperemesis gravidrum, & morning sickness, Back Pain, Maternal Bleeding, Abortion, & Oedema, Hypertension, Gestational diabetes, Pre-eclampsia, Eclampsia, Maternal Sepsis did not differ with age range of the participants. So, it happens those problems experience age with by ≤19 years, between 20-30 years & ≥30 years of all pregnant women during of pregnancy. Conclusion: In this study none of the participants received nursing care for pregnancy related health problems during pregnancy, so need raise awareness program for gynaecological nursing treatment and recommended for further study on pregnancy related postnatal complaints. Key words: Pregnancy, health problems, gestational age, para, gravid, first trimester, second trimester, third trimester.