The Relationship between Quality of Life and Physical Activity, Worry, Depression, and Insomnia in Pregnant Women

摘要

Objective: Physical activity (PA), insomnia, depression, and worry were the key factors affecting pregnant women’squality of life (QoL). The present study aimed to determine quality of life and its relationship with physical activity,insomnia, depression, and worry in pregnant women.Method: This was an observational cross sectional study, conducted among 256 healthy pregnant women using 5questionnaires: WHOQOL-brief (WHO Quality of Life Questionnaire, brief version, ISI (Insomnia Severity Index), PSWQ(Penn State Worry Questionnaire), ZSRDS (Zung Self-Rating depression Scale), and Pregnancy Physical ActivityQuestionnaire (PPAQ).Results: There was a significant relationship between general QoL, insomnia, and worry with educational background,number of children, and occupation (P 0.05). Depression had a significant relationship with occupation (P 0.05). PAdid not have a significant relationship with demographic information. However, insomnia had a significantly negativerelationship with general QoL, general health, and psychological health (P 0.05). The worry variable had also asignificant negative relationship with general QoL, general health, and physiological health (P 0.05). Depression had asignificant negative relationship with general health, physical health, and psychological health (P 0.05). There was nosignificant relationship between physical activities in pregnancy with QoL, depression, worry, and insomnia.Conclusion: Women need to be informed about the necessity of controlling and reducing insomnia, worry, anddepression to have a higher QoL. PA declined during the second and third trimester of pregnancy. However, PA inpregnancy can positively impact general QoL.