• Investigating the relationship between mental health and patience in pregnant women admitted to the maternity department of Shiraz hospitals
  • Fateme Valipour Baboly,1,* Zeinab Sadat Moosavifard,2
    1. BSc in Nursing, Department of Nursing, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
    2. Department of Nursing, faculty of nursing, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran.


  • Introduction: Mental health is necessary to maintain the durability of social, occupational and academic performance of people in the society and its provision is the main goal of implementing mental health programs in the society. Patience is one of the moral concepts that is emphasized a lot in Islamic ethics. What comes to mind from this word is an emotional state that happens to certain people during hardships, calamities and troubles. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to determine the relationship between mental health and patience in pregnant women admitted to the maternity department of Shiraz hospitals.
  • Methods: This research is a descriptive-analytical study that was conducted cross-sectionally in 2019. The study population consisted of 82 pregnant women admitted to the maternity department of hospitals in Shiraz city, who were included in the study through easy and accessible means. Data were collected through demographic information, standard mental health questionnaire (GHQ) which has 28 questions and includes 4 subscales of physical symptoms, anxiety and insomnia. Disruption in social function, symptoms of depression. Also, a standard questionnaire for measuring the amount of patience was designed by Khormai et al. This questionnaire contains 25 questions, which include transcendence, patience, satisfaction, endurance, and persistence. After collecting, using descriptive statistics, mean, standard deviation and range of changes and inferential tests of independent T-test, ONOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient were analyzed in spss version 21 software.
  • Results: The results showed that the average age of the participating pregnant women was 26.23±2.4. 36.58% of them were primiparous women. 24.39% of them mentioned a history of abortion. Also, 41.64% of them had undergraduate education. The average duration of hospitalization in these patients is 2.31. The average mental health score is 104.87±5.42 and the average patience score is 64.03±6.54. There was a significant relationship between age and endurance sub-component (p<0.005). Length of hospitalization with anxiety and insomnia, there was a significant relationship (p<0.005). Also, there was a significant relationship between abortion history and the sub-component of depressive symptoms (p<0.005). Also, there was a direct relationship between the mean score of mental health and patience. (p<0.005)
  • Conclusion: The results of the present study showed that the score of mental health and patience was good. Also, age was related to the sub-component of endurance. So that the endurance of pregnant women increases with age. Also, the duration of hospitalization was related to anxiety and insomnia. Doubt that with the increase in the duration of hospitalization, the anxiety and insomnia caused by it increases. Pregnant women who had a history of abortion had more depression than other women. Also, pregnant women who had a higher mental health score were also more patient. Therefore, it is possible to increase the level of mental health of these people with appropriate measures in the form of training workshops for pregnant women at the time of receiving prenatal care in health centers so that pregnant women can use its effects during the stages of childbirth and after.
  • Keywords: Mental health, patience, pregnant women, maternity department