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The burden of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy: severe impacts on quality of life, daily life functioning and willingness to become pregnant again – results from a cross-sectional study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, February 2017
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Title
The burden of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy: severe impacts on quality of life, daily life functioning and willingness to become pregnant again – results from a cross-sectional study
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, February 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12884-017-1249-0
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Kristine Heitmann, Hedvig Nordeng, Gro C. Havnen, Anja Solheimsnes, Lone Holst

Abstract

Though nausea and vomiting is very common during pregnancy, no studies have investigated the impact of this condition on the women's daily lives in a Scandinavian population. The aim of this study was to describe the burden of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (NVP) on global quality of life, daily life functioning and willingness to become pregnant again according to the severity of NVP symptoms. This study is a cross-sectional population-based study conducted in Norway. Pregnant women and mothers with children <1 year of age with current or prior NVP were eligible to participate. Data were collected through an anonymous on-line questionnaire accessible from November 10(th), 2014 to January 31(st), 2015. Severity of NVP was measured using the 24-h Pregnancy Unique Quantification of Emesis Scale (PUQE). Associations between severity of NVP, daily life functioning and willingness to become pregnant again were tested using chi-square tests. Associations with global quality of life measured in terms of the Quality of Life Scale (QOLS) were estimated using generalized linear models and reported as unstandardized regression coefficients (β) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). 712 women with NVP were included in the study. NVP was significantly associated with several characteristics, including daily life functioning, quality of life and willingness to become pregnant again. The negative impact was greater the more severe the symptoms were, although considerable adverse effects were also seen among women with mild and moderate NVP symptoms. Over one fourth of the women with severe NVP considered terminating the pregnancy due to NVP, and three in four considered not to get pregnant again. Severity of NVP remained significantly associated with reduced global quality of life when adjusting for maternal characteristics and illnesses with β (95% CI) = -10.9 (-16.9, -4.9) for severe versus mild NVP. NVP as measured by PUQE had a major impact on various aspects of the women's lives, including global quality of life and willingness to become pregnant again.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 160 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 14%
Student > Bachelor 16 10%
Lecturer 9 6%
Other 8 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 4%
Other 24 15%
Unknown 74 46%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 33 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 31 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 2%
Social Sciences 3 2%
Other 14 9%
Unknown 72 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 101. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 January 2024.
All research outputs
#406,317
of 25,010,497 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#49
of 4,661 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,726
of 316,477 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#3
of 67 outputs
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