Quality of Life of Pregnant Women During The Covid-19 Outbreak Situation in Udon Thani Province

Abstract

              Spreading of Covid-19 affecting all groups of people Including pregnant women who are at high risk. This survey research aimed to study the quality of life of pregnant women during the Covid-19 outbreak situation in Udon Thani Province. The participants were 137 pregnant women who received antenatal services at the antenatal care clinic, Udon Thani Hospital. Data collection tool was the WHOQOL-BREF-THAI, which had a reliability of 0.65 and the Cronbach alpha coefficient 0.843. Data were collected by asking pregnant women to answer the questionnaire by themselves. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics using frequency and percentage.

              The results revealed that sample of 137 pregnant women, 70.07% of them were 20-34 years old, married and living together 94.89%, finished secondary education 64.23%, multigravida 59.12%, gestational age more than 28 weeks was 48.18%, Most of the antenatal care providers was sub-district health promoting hospitals 50.36%. The overall of quality of life showed that 64.23% was at moderate level. Quality of life found that the physical, social relationship and environment domain mostly were at moderate level (78.10%, 75.18 and 68.61%, respectively), and psychological  domain was at good and moderate level (54.01% and 45.99%). The poor quality of life in terms of social relationships was the most common at 5.84%, followed by environmental and physical domain 1.43% and 0.73%, respectively, but had no in psychological aspect. It can be concluded that, in the COVID-19 outbreak situation,    pregnant women had 100% good and moderate quality of life in psychological aspect. in terms of social relationship was found more percentage of low level than other aspects of quality of life.