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.
