Department of Midwifery and Reproductive, Nursing Care Research Center (NCRC), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
BMC Psychiatry. 2022 Apr 28;22(1):298. doi: 10.1186/s12888-022-03922-2.
Anxiety during pregnancy can have side effects for both the mother and the baby. Therefore, it is necessary to study the factors that affect anxiety during pregnancy. This study aimed to investigate the role of religious coping and demographic and fertility factors in predicting pregnancy anxiety in Iranian primiparous women.
We conducted a cross-sectional study on 300 primiparous women (n = 100 in each trimester of pregnancy) referred to seven health centers affiliated to the Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. The sampling method was multistage. It lasted from July 2018 till August 2019. Data collection tools included the demographic and fertility questionnaire, valid and reliable Iranian Religious Coping Scale (IRCS), and standard State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI).
Religious practices, benevolent reappraisal, and active religious coping had a significant inverse relationship with state and trait anxiety. Whereas negative and passive religious coping had a significant direct relationship with state and trait anxiety. The mean scores of state anxiety had a significant relationship with the women's education, spouse's education and occupation, economic status and housing status. There was no relationship between state anxiety and fertility variables. Based on multiple linear regression, negative and active religious coping predicted 27% of state anxiety and 15% of trait anxiety. Among these two variables, the negative religious coping was the more effective in predicting state and trait anxiety.
With increasing positive religious coping, the anxiety of pregnant women decreased. Whereas with increasing negative religious coping, their anxiety increased. Our results emphasize the role of negative religious coping in predicting pregnancy anxiety.
孕期焦虑会对母婴双方都产生负面影响。因此，有必要研究影响孕期焦虑的因素。本研究旨在探讨宗教应对方式以及人口统计学和生育因素在预测伊朗初产妇孕期焦虑中的作用。
我们对 300 名初产妇（每个孕期 100 名）进行了横断面研究，这些产妇均来自伊朗德黑兰伊朗医科大学附属医院的 7 个保健中心。采用多阶段抽样方法，研究于 2018 年 7 月至 2019 年 8 月进行。数据收集工具包括人口统计学和生育问卷、经过验证且可靠的伊朗宗教应对量表（IRCS）以及标准状态-特质焦虑量表（STAI）。
宗教实践、仁慈重评和积极的宗教应对与状态和特质焦虑呈显著负相关。而消极和被动的宗教应对与状态和特质焦虑呈显著正相关。状态焦虑的平均得分与女性的教育程度、配偶的教育程度和职业、经济状况和住房状况显著相关。状态焦虑与生育变量之间没有关系。基于多元线性回归，消极和积极的宗教应对可以预测 27%的状态焦虑和 15%的特质焦虑。在这两个变量中，消极的宗教应对更能预测状态和特质焦虑。
随着积极的宗教应对的增加，孕妇的焦虑程度会降低。而随着消极的宗教应对的增加，她们的焦虑程度会增加。我们的研究结果强调了消极宗教应对在预测孕期焦虑中的作用。
