Journal of Psychiatry

Influence of socio demographic factors on psychological well-being among pregnant women in Ibadan, Oyo state

27^th International Conference on PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH

June 18-19, 2018 Paris, France

Fagbenro D A and Ojewunmi A K

Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Psychiatry

Abstract:

The psychological wellbeing of pregnancy women in recent year has received little considerable attention in the literature. This study, therefore, investigated the influence of demographic factors (stages of pregnancy, age, family type and educational qualification) on psychological wellbeing among pregnant women in Ibadan, Nigeria. The study adopted an ex-post facto research design and was carried out at the antenatal section of the university college hospital (UCH) Ibadan, Nigeria. The study adopted the purposive sampling technique, to select a total of 100 pregnant women with a mean age of 30.2 year and Standard deviation of 6.53. Questionnaire containing standardized scales that measured demographic characteristics and psychological well-being were used for data collection. Data collected were analyzed using the one-way ANOVA, t-test for independence measure and Pearson moment correlation (PPMC). Results showed that there was significant influence of stages of pregnancy on psychological wellbeing (F (2, 97) =15.40, p<0.01) meaning that pregnant woman in second trimester (M=59.69) and third trimester of pregnancy (M=66.27) significantly reported higher psychological wellbeing than pregnant woman in first trimester of pregnancy (M=51.07) who reported lower psychological wellbeing. There was significant positive relationship between age and psychological wellbeing (r=.39, df=98, p<0.01). The result further showed that there was significance differences between the psychological wellbeing of pregnant women who came from monogamous family (M=62.04, S.D=13.66) and polygamous family M=53.69, S.D=10.39), (t (98)=-3.45, p<0.05). Finally, there was significant influence of educational qualification on psychological wellbeing (F (2, 95) =7.64, p<0.01). The study concluded that demographic factors (stages of pregnancy, age, family type and educational qualification) have significant influence on psychological wellbeing. Based on these findings, the study recommends that trained psychologist should develop an intervention program tailored toward recognizing and detecting early problems which might pose danger to the psychological wellbeing of pregnant women especially less educated women who are from polygamous family and in their first trimester of pregnancy