Affiliation:
1. University of Liverpool
2. Children Hospital and Institute of Child Health
3. Al-Shifa Hospital
4. Fatima Memorial Hospital
5. Peoples University of Medical & Health Sciences for Women
6. Eastern Connecticut Health Network
Abstract
Abstract
Objective
Pregnancy is a complex phenomenon accompanied by biological, physiological and psychosocial changes for a mother. It is also regarded as a stressful life event where a woman’s role, identity and interpersonal relationships are restructured. The present study from Pakistan explores the association of sleep quality and poor sleeping habits with prenatal stress using Pittsburgh Sleep quality Index.
Results
There were a total of 516 women (mean age = 29.82 years), with more than half reporting poor sleep quality. Ethnically, a majority (395, 76.6%) were natives of the Punjab province while rest were non-natives. A high percentage of respondents reported poor subjective sleep quality (22.1%), sleep latency (44.1%), habitual sleep efficiency (27.5%), sleep disturbance (30.1%), use of medications (7.1%) and daytime dysfunction (29.5%). According to logistic regression analysis, respondents with poor sleep quality were 2.24 (95% CI = 1.55–3.22, P < 0.001) times more likely to have high stress levels (P < .001), after adjusting for age.
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC