Risk factors in pregnant women and Gestational Accompaniment

Abstract

Introduction: Motherhood is a complex sociocultural phenomenon that transcends the biological aspects of gestation and childbirth, as it also has psychological, social, cultural and affective components of being a mother that are built in the interaction of women with others to understand the meanings of motherhood in order to identify risk factors in a timely manner.

 Objective: Evaluate risk factors in pregnant women and gestational accompaniment, to decrease fetal maternal complications.

Material and methods: Quantitative prospective cohort-type analytical research was conducted with a population of 258 pregnant women who attended the prenatal monitoring consultation at a First Level Health Center of Care at any stage of pregnancy for information collection was through surveys and review of medical records. Statistical analysis of the results was obtained through the application of chi squared inferential methods and descriptive frequency and percentage analysis.

Results: Risk factors in pregnant women that have been identified are anemias, gestational hypertension, urinary tract infection, heart disease and diabetes; it is also visualized that in the gestational accompaniment with the couple's attendance at prenatal checkups presents a chi square of 7,8425 with a significance of 0.0494, indicating that, if there is association between these two variables, that those pregnant women who do not have gestational accompaniment.

Conclusion: Gestational accompaniment is important to carry out by the pregnant partner, in such a way that the subsidiary ties are fostered from pregnancy and the strengthening of support for the pregnant woman at this stage of vulnerability of the woman.