Abstract:

Quality of life is an individual’s perceptions of their position in life in the context of the culture and value system in which they live in and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns. Sleep patterns, ability to perform tasks of daily living, and quality of life within the pregnant women are stricken by systematic variations caused by hormonal, emotional, mental, and physical factors. This study was a cross sectional study carried out on pregnant women from 1^st January to 31^st December, 2017 in family planning corner of Dhaka medical College Hospital. Among 248 respondents majority of the respondents were first or second gravida (62.9%) and most of their gestational age were in third trimester (49.2%). Majority of them had nausea (53.6%) but didn’t have vomiting (64.5%). About half of them had abdominal pain (50.0%) and about 60.2% of them had problem in their previous pregnancy. %). Mean score of general quality of life 3.19±.66, general health 2.82±.75, physical health 19.66±8.12, psychological health 26.85±6.28, social relationship 84.97±12.21 and environment domain 12.58±4.72. One-Way Anova test reveals that the difference of mean score in relation to age group and occupation of respondent is not significant. The significant difference of mean scores in relation to educational qualification and monthly family income is found in quality of life. Awareness should be build up among parents about higher education for female as well as enhancing women employment to improve social relationship as well as quality of life.

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