Gender Preference Of Families, Anxiety And Depression Of Pregnant Women In An Rural

Objectives To understand gender preference of the pregnant women and their family members and the extent of the pregnancy women getting anxiety and depression during the second trimester and before delivery, and to explore the correlates of anxiety and depression.Methods In the second trimester and before delivery, following up method was used to investigate the pregnant women by face-to-face interviews with self-designed questionnaire, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D).Results In the second trimester:the pregnant women with gender preference accounted for 45.2%, among which,32.2% prefer to girls,13.0% prefer to boys. However, the others without gender preference accounted for 54.8%. Before delivery, the pregnant women with gender preference accounted for 58.9%, among which 47.3% of them prefer to girls,11.6% of them prefer to boys. There was significant different between the two stages. The average scores of State Anxiety in the second trimester and before delivery were 37.86±8.89,41.21±4.92, respectively, those of Trait Anxiety were 41.33±7.53,42.47±5.71, respectively. There was sig difference between the tow stages in state anxiety and trait anxiety (t= 11.119, P＜0.001; t=-4.801, P＜0.001). The rates of depression in the second trimester and before delivery were 42.5% and 22.6%.respectively. The scores of S-AI, T-AI, depression in second trimester of pregnancy and the third and more pregnancies were significantly higher than those in the first arid second pregnancies. Second trimester S-AI scores, T-AI scores, scores of pregnant women worried about problems regarding pregnancy were positively correlated with depression scores. S-AI scores before delivery, pregnant women worried about pregnancy rates was positively correlated with depression scores (rs= 0.255, P= 0.002; rs= 0.265, P= 0.001). Marital relationship scores were negatively correlated with depression scores (the second trimester:rs=-0.264, P= 0.000; before delivery:rs=-0.340, P= 0.001). Relationship between Mother scores were negatively correlated with depression scores (the second trimester:rs=-0.291, P= 0.000; before delivery:rs=-0.253, P= 0.002). Conclusion The women and their family members have gender preferences, but their concepts are different from the traditional concept of preferring boy. The rate of depression in the second trimester is high. Depression scores and anxiety scores, scores on the fear of pregnancy, couples score, the score-law relations. Gender preference does not contribute to anxiety and depression during pregnancy.