The relationship between pregnant women's attitudes toward preconception care and pregnancy adaptation: a cross-sectional descriptive study.
Şeyma Çatalgöl, Zehra Üzel
PMID 42467879WHAT IT FOUND
Receiving preconception care was not linked to better reported adaptation to pregnancy in 388 pregnant women in Türkiye.
More positive preconception knowledge and attitudes were linked to better adaptation.
Key findings
01Higher preconception-care knowledge and more positive attitudes were associated with better reported adaptation to pregnancy.
02Women who had received preconception care/counseling did not report significantly better adaptation to pregnancy than women who had not.
0348.5% of participants received preconception care/counseling; folic acid/vitamin use (30.2%) and vaccination (21.6%) were the most common topics.
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What it does not show
The cross-sectional design cannot show that preconception knowledge, attitudes, or counseling caused better adaptation. Participants were recruited from one hospital outpatient clinic in the Central Aegean Region of Türkiye, so the findings may not apply to other settings. The hospital-based sample may not represent all pregnant women. Self-report and recall bias may affect reported smoking, alcohol use, attitudes, and preconception experiences. Forty participants were excluded for missing data after 428 enrolled, and residual confounding cannot be ruled out.
Declared interests
The study was supported by TÜBİTAK under the 2209-A University Students Research Projects Support Program. The supplied text does not report commercial funding or author conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that preconception counseling improves adaptation to pregnancy. Women who had received counseling did not have significantly better adaptation scores than women who had not (p = 0.857). The study is cross-sectional and can only show associations.