Assessment of post abortion woman lifestyle

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 MD, Obstetrics &Gynecological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing ,Ain Shams University .

2 Prof. of Obstetrics &Gynecological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing , Ain Shams University.

Abstract

Background: The present study was a descriptive study that aimed to assess of post
abortion
woman lifestyle. A Qausi-expermental sample that consisted of 116 post aborted
women, the study was conducted at post natal room in AIN Shams University, maternity
hospital. Data were collected using Arabic structured interviewing questionnaire sheet includes
characteristics of the studied women; women knowledge regards abortion and management,
lifestyle assessment tool. The results of this study revealed that more than half of women don’t
have knowledge regards abortion and its management, more over there was more than half of
women had unhealthy lifestyle during pregnancy. It was concluded that the majority of the
studied women had negative attitude toward the lifestyle meanwhile, there were many factors
as age, work, family history, no. of abortion, unhealthy lifestyle behavior that effect on post
aborted woman. It was recommended that providing further session, brochures, to increase
women knowledge and awareness about effect of unhealthy lifestyle.

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