J. Appl. Environ. Biol. Sci., 7(10)189-194, 2017 | ISSN: 2090-4274 |
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Nursing Science Program, Faculty of Health Science, Unipdu Jombang, Indonesia.
Received: June 24, 2017 Accepted: September 3, 2017
Pregnancy, labor, and post-partum period are the sensitive period through the life of woman. In this period, there is transformation which is in the form of physiological perspective, psychological perspetive, and the family social role. One of the form of psychology's transformation is mother’s anxiety in facing the labor.The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between self-efficacy and husband’s support andmaternalanxiety in facing the labor.The research design used was Cross Sectional. The population were all pregnant woman in BPS Ita Afrianti Ningrum Peterongan Jombang. The number of the samples that have the criteria if inclusion and exclusion were 74 respondents. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling. The instrument used were: The maternal Confidence Scale to measure self-efficacy, NSSQ (Norbeck Social Support Questionnare) to measure husband’s support, and Childbirth Attitude Questionnaire to measure maternal anxiety. The data was analyzed by Spearman Rho and Ordinal regression with α = 0,05. The results of this study was found that there is correlation between self-efficacy and maternal anxiety in childbirth (P = 0,000; r = -0,399), there is correlation between husbund's support and maternal anxiety in facing the labor(P = 0,039; r = -0,240), the dominant factor in this study was self-efficacy with the significant score was 0.002 (p< α), this mean that if self-efficay was high so the maternal anxiety will be reduce or lose in facing the labor. Therefore, health workers should provide health education on pregnancy and labor so that it increases mother’s Self-efficacy and they should provide expalnation to the family member especially the husband to give support to the mothers during pregnancy and labor.
KEYWORDS: Self-Efficacy, Husband’sSupports, Meternal anxiety
Pregnancy, labor, and post-partum period are the sensitive period through the life of woman. Based on Leonetti & Baetriz (2007) in [1], in this period there is transformation which is in the form of physiological perspective, psychological perspetive, and the family social role. One of the form of physiological transformation is maternal anxiety in facing the labor. Maternal anxiety happen because of some changes in the body, and for some people this happen because of the first experinece in their life [2].
Anxiety is one of the caused of long partus and fetal death. About 5% of long partus caused maternal death in Indonesia. The Indonesian demografi survey and health(SDKI) in 2012, found that 32/1000 is fetal death and 359/100.000 is maternal death. Fetal death in Indonesia is still hight than other ASEAN countries, it is about 4,2 higher than Malaysia, 1,2 higher that Filipina and 2,2 higher than Thailand. For maternal death, Indoneisa was first range among ASEAN Countries [3].
Maternal anxiety will come in third trimester, this caused by: 1) the mother thingking that her pregnant will be end, and physical discomfort will be lose and feels happy because the baby will be coming; 2) the mother will instropective and more thing and affraid for her delivered baby; 3) the mother start to protect her baby because the baby starting to growing up and try to prevent the risk of her baby; 4) Feeling about fatality to the mother and her baby [4].
In addition there are several factors that affect maternal anxiety such as age, education, employment, self-efficacy and husband support. Self-efficacy (self-confidence) in third trimester of pregnant woment had positif correlation with maternal anxiety [5].The higher of maternal self-efficay so the maternal anxiety will be lower [1]. Social support especially husbund’s support is of importance factors to reduce maternal anxiecty and maternal stress. Supportive relationships play an important role in protecting and strengthening efforts to reduce of stress effect for pregnant woment.Based on Chou et al.(2008) in [6], the anxiety of pregnant women when they have social support is more lower than who did not have social support. This finding also in line with research conducted by Laursen [7], they find that primiparous fears in the process of childbirth are found in mothers with less social support.
*Corresponding Author: Mukhoirotin, Nursing Science Program, Faculty of Health Science, Unipdu Jombang. email: mukhoirotinkhoir@yahoo.co.id
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Anxiety and panic have a negative impact on women from pregnancy to childbirth. Psychologically, the mother who unrelax along pregnancy will make the mother and baby feels anxious than make impact to health condition of the baby [8].The anxiety in the end of pregnancy and childbirth will have an impact not only to the mother but also to the baby. This occurs because the pregnant anxiety can lead to increased adrenal secretion. Increased adrenal secretion may cause more uterine contractions so this will make vasoconstriction than the blad flow of utero-placenta will be decrease [9], so the baby will hypoxia and fetal bradycardia than fetal death [10], and also it may inhibit contractions than late for childbirth [11]. Resulting in vasoconstriction resulting from decreased utero-placenta blood flow [12], resulting in hypoxia and fetal bradycardia resulting in fetal death [10] and may inhibit contractions, slow labor [11].In addition, pregnant women with anxiety are high risk for childbirth premature [13].
To solve this problem and prevent of maternal anciety before getting childbirth, some efforts that can be done by health care provider are: 1) Identifying maternity problems of pregnant women at the beginning so we can prevent psychosocial problems in the begining of pregnancy. Than we can prevent further problems of pregnancy mother [14];2) Provide health education about delivery. Health education interventions are effective to promoting the self-efficacy of pregnant women in childbirth [15,16], and decreasing primigravida anxiety in facing the labor [17]; 3) Giving motivation and education to familyabout social support to pregnancy women before childbirth until after childbirth [18]. The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between self-efficacy and husband’s support andmaternal anxiety in facing the labor.
The metdhology design in this study used Cross Sectional design. The population in this study were pregnant woment who are the member in BPS of Ita Afrianti Ningrum in Peterongan Jombang. The number of the samples that have the criteria if inclusion and exclusion were 74 respondents.Inclusion criteria in this study were: 1) pregnant women in third trimester (gestational age ≥ 28 weeks); 2) Pregnant women who normal partus indication; and 3) Willing to be a respondent. However, exclusion criteria in this study is pregnant women who has a disease or pregnancy abnormalities which affect their childbirth process.The sampling technique used was purposive sampling. The instrument used were: The maternal Confidence Scaleto measure self-efficacy, NSSQ (Norbeck Social Support Questionnare) to measure husband’s support, and Childbirth Attitude Questionnaire to measure maternal anxiety. Data were analyzed by using Spearman Rho and Ordinal Regression with α = 0,05.
This research was conducted on March to June 2017. The respondents in this study were pregnant women in BPS Ita Afrianti Ningrum Peterongan Jombang, 74 paticipants was selected by inclusion and exlusion criteria. Characteristics of respondents include: 1) Age; 2) Education; 3) Employment; and 4) Information; 5) Source of Information; 6) Salary; and 7) Pregnancy status. The characteristics of respondents in this study presented by table of frequency distribution (Table 1).
Table 1. The Characteristics of the sample
1. | Variable Age a. <20;>35 old b. 20-35 old | Frekuency (N) 4 70 | Precentage (%) 5,4 94,6 |
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2. | Education a. Elementary School b. Primary High School c. Senior High School d. Bachelor degree or more | 4 15 51 4 | 5,4 20,3 68,9 5,4 |
3. | Employment a. No b. Yes | 55 19 | 74,3 25,7 |
4. | Information a. No b. Yes | 0 100 | 0 100 |
5. | Source of information a. Health care provider b. Internet c. Parent | 59 7 8 | 79,7 9,5 10,8 |
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6. | Salary | ||
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a. Higher (≥ 1.725.000) | 13 | 17,6 | |
b. Lower (< 1.725.000) | 61 | 82,4 | |
7. | Pregnancy status | ||
a. Primigravida | 23 | 31,1 | |
b. Multigravida | 51 | 68,9 |
Based on the results of Spearman's rho test, there was a relationship between self-effcacy and maternal anxiety in childbirth. The data showed in Table 2
Table 2. Relationship between Self-efficacy and maternal anciety in childbirth
No. | Self-Efficacy | Maternal anciety Low Moderate F % F % | High F % | F | Total % |
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1. | Low | 1 1,4 12 16,2 | 1 1,4 | 14 | 18,9 |
2. | Moderate | 1 1,4 33 44,6 | 8 10,8 | 42 | 56,8 |
3. | High | 13 17,6 3 4,1 | 2 2,7 | 18 | 24,3 |
Total | 15 20,3 48 64,9 | 11 14,9 | 74 | 100 | |
Correlation testSpearman Rho p = 0,000 | r = -0,399 |
Based on Spearman's rho test, this study found that there was correlation between husbundn's support and maternalanciety infacing the labor. The data showed in the Table 3
Table3. Correlation between Husbund Support and maternal anciety infacing the labor
No. | Husbund Support Maternal Anciety Low Medium F % F % | High F % | F | Total % |
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1. | Low 0 0 7 9,5 | 0 0 | 7 | 9,5 |
2. | Medium 6 8,1 35 47,3 | 8 10,8 | 49 | 66,2 |
3. | High 9 12,2 6 8,1 | 3 4,1 | 18 | 24,3 |
Total | 15 20,3 48 64,9 | 11 14,9 | 74 | 100 |
Correlation testSpearman Rho p = 0,039 | r = -0,240 |
Based on Ordinal Regression, this study found that the dominant factor which related tomaternal anxiety infacing the laboris Self-Efficacy, this shows in Wald number 10,022 and Significance number 0,002 (p<α), this data was shown in Table 4.
No. 1 | Variabele Self Efficacy | Wald 10,022 | 95 % CI 1,087 4,621 | P 0,002 |
2 | Husband support | 0,18 | -1,024 0,893 | 0,893 |
The results in this study showed that there was relationship between self-efficacy and maternal anxiety infacing the labor, this showed in P-Value (p=0,000) and coefficien correlation -0,399, which mean that there was significant correlation with negative correlation line and the strength of the relationship is enough.
Self-efficacy is a belief or person belief about their ability to organize and implement their activities to finished their task [1]. Self-efficacy is also an individual's belief about his ability, ability to getting a succeess in their task [19]. The power of the individual's self-efficacy against a particular behavior, determines whether the behavior will be sought, how long the individu will survive in an attempt to do the behavior, and what the outcome that he will get. Individuals who doubt about their ability or in the other words, they have low self-esteem so will reduce their effort or easily give up when faced a difficult situation and full of challenges so they can't achieve the goals. Based on Bandura (1986) in [1], otherwisethe individu who have high confidence are happy with the challenges [1]. Self-efficacy (self-confidence) of third trimester pregnant women is closely related to anxiety [5]. The higher of self-efficacy of pregnant women will make the lower of the anxiety [1].
The results in this study showed that respondents who had low self-efficacy, almost all participants have moderate anxiety and some of those have severe anciety. Respondents who have high self-efficacy, the majority of the participants have low level an anxiety and some of those have high anxiety.
Maternal self-confidence in their life is maternal power to finished their task before getting childbirth. Pregnant women who belief about their ability to get positif thingking about their childbirh and
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feels capable they can do that. With this beliefs, the mother will feel calm in their childbirth so they also will have low anciety.Pregnant women who have high self-efficacy with high anxiety occur in primigravida, this happens because of negative information from other people who had previously given birth. Pregnant women who have self-confidence feels an uncertain situation such us childbirth will giving pain and affraid that they can't do that so this make the mother unconfortable and anciety when they given birth.
The results of this study was consistent with previous research by Kish (2003) in [1], which states that during pregnancy women with high self-esteem have lower anxiety than non-confident women. Based on Lowe (1991) in [1],self-efficacy is an important factor in childbirth and delivery because self-belief can predict how much effort will be used and how long the pregnant woman will survive with her behavior than this will help her to keep control of their delivery or childbirth. When the women getting delivery and have greater feelings of control, this can helpto reduce maternal anxiety during childbirth [20,21]. Self-efficacy can be improved by providing psycho-educational interventions [16].
The result in this study showed that there was a significant relationship between husband’s support andmaternal anxiety in facing the labor, it is indicated by significant value (p) is 0,039 and correlation coefficient is -0,240, this indicate that negative correlation line with enough strength. Social support in this study mean that husband’s support is one of the main factors to reduce anxiety and stress during pregnancy. The relationship support plays main role in protecting and strengthening of efforts and this to overcomethe stress effects in pregnant women. Based on Chou et al. ( 2008) in [6], maternal anxiety with high social support is lower than the who have low of social support.
The results in study showed that the respondents who have low level of husband’s support, all of those experienced moderate anxiety. Respondents who have moderate level of husband’s support, most of thosehave moderate level of anxiety and some of those had low and high anxiety. Respondents who have high level of husband’s support, half of those have low anxiety and some had high anxiety. This occurs among primigravida, unemployed mothers and low family incomes. Low socioeconomic status can make unwell condition and make individuals susceptible to mental disorders [22]. Based on Robertson et al. (2004) in [23], during pregnancy and postpartum, moderate to high level of social support is associated with lower postpartum depression and anxiety.The results of this study was accordance with previous research conducted by Rini et al [24], she mentioned that effective social support can reduce prenatal anxiety during pregnancy.The results of qualitative studies conducted by Travasso et al [25], states that the factors that lead to reduced anxiety and depression are social support from family, friends and colleagues. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between husband support and mother's anxiety in childbirthwith negative correlation and sufficient strength, which means that the higher of support will make low mother anxiety in facing the labor, or the lower of support will make more severe anxiety mother facing the labor. Previous research conducted by Peter et al. [26], conducted in teenage pregnancy states that there is a moderate relationship between social support and anxiety.
Social support for pregnant women can reduce psychological problems such as stress, anxiety,and depression, alsoprevent premature childbirth [27]. There are two physiological mechanisms when a person exposed stress. First, it correlated with autonomic nervous system and the release of catecholamines, especially Norepinephrine and epinephrine. Second, it correlated with the hypothalamus-hypophysisadrenal axis, which causes the release of the hormone corticotropin, adrenocorticotropin, and cortisol [28,29]. Fetal hypothalamic-pituitary axis responses cause an increase in cortisol levels, which increases neuromuscular responses and loose of oxytocin. The increasing causes an earlier of uterine muscle contraction so this makes preterm childbirth [30,31]. Impact of stress or anxiety not only occurs to the mother but also for the fetus, therefore the husband’ssupport not only given while pregnant, but also during childbirth. Husband’s support during childbirth can make women feel more controlin childbirth so the anxiety will be reduce [32].
The results of this study showed that the dominant factor associated with maternal anxiety in facing the laborwas Self-Efficacy, this shows in the value of wald 10,022 and the significance value of 0.002 (p <α). Behavior changes occur through Self-Efficacy changes. Based on Bandura(1997) in [1], the person who believes in their abilities will use their knowledge and skills with effectively, this to overcome their problems. Dunkel Schetter & Brooks (2009) in [24], stated that social support is an interpersonal exchange which designed to fulfill needs of other people. Self-Efficacy is an internal booster that encourages a person to behave. Pregnant women who have high self-esteem, so when they have to childbirth and than they will confident that theyare able to deal with anxious situation. Based on Baron & Byrne (1997) in [1],that feelings will encourage pregnant women concerned to try to cope, endure, and mobilize all the skills and their knowledge to prove their beliefs.
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The results of this study found that : 1) There is relationship between Self-Efficacy and Maternal Anxiety in facing the labor; 2) There is relationship between husband’s support and Maternal Anxiety in facing the labor; 3) The dominant factor which relating to maternal anxiety in facing the labor is Self-Efficacy. So from this study, the researcher recomment that the health care care services should give health education about pregnancy and childbirth so this can improving mother self-efficacy and giving deep information relating health education to their family especially to their husbund to giving their support to the mother in pregnancy and childbirth period.
Ethics This study was approved ethical clearance from Ethical Commission of Health Research in Health Polytechnic, Kemenkes Malang.
Praise be to Allah. May the peace and blessings of Allah be on the last Prophet and Messengger, Nabi Muhammad SAW and on his household and companions. The completion of this research was supported and giving encouragement either directly or indirectly. Therefore, my express gratitude as much as possible to: 1) Prof. DR. H. A. Zahro, MA., As the Rector of University of Pesantren Tinggi DarulUlumJombang who has motivated to conduct this research; 2) Directorate of Research and Community Service (DRPM) of the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia which has provided assistance to researcher to carry out this research; 3) Andi Yudianto, S.Kep., Ns., M.Kes., As Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences Unipdu who has given opportunity to the researcher to carry out this research; 4) Drs. Moh. Yahya Ashari, M.Pd, as Head of Research Department of University of Pesantren Tinggi DarulUlumJombang who facilitated the researcher along doing this research; 5) All parties who have participated in this reseach.
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