Authors : Sehhatie Shafai Fahimeh , Sadeghi Khamneh Sedigheh , Hossein Kushavar and Sheybaei Fatemeh
Abstract: The life style which is called for individual life manner is described as one of the important factors which influence the health. The health and progress of every society to some extent is dependent on the health of women, the pregnancy and child delivering have had significant effect on the women`s health and hygiene and is accounted for national health and important indexes. On the other hand, the life style has had long-term and permanent effect on the health of mother and child. Therefore, this research is done for objective reviewing pregnant women`s life style and its relation with pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women coming to educational centers of Tabriz. This research is cross-sectional study in the form of comparative which in it 385 women coming to AL-Zahra and Taleghani Hospitals studied; they have had a unit characteristics of research case, The procedure was in the aim of choice and with the help of questionnaires containing three parts socio-individual characteristics; life style and the pregnancy outcomes, the data collected and analyzed with the help of computer software SPSS/Win11 and statistic tests ANOVA, correlation and t test. The research results showed that the life style 44.7% of pregnant women studied were middle and 55.3% were good, which only in the field of physical exercise were poor and in the rest cases the situation evaluated in the majority was good and from point view of statistic, the relation between life style and weight of newborn was significant (p = 0.006), with the use of Pearson`s ratio scales it was defined that the relation between physical exercise (from part of life style) and pregnancy age (r = 0.1 and p = 0.046) and relation between nutrition (from part of life style) and the weight of newborn and pregnancy age (in order p = 0.033 and p = 0.005) was significant. Regarding to research findings, there is relation between the life style situation and nutrition with the weight of newborn and also nutrition and physical exercise with pregnant age, for helping to promote women`s health during pregnancy and improving the pregnancy outcomes with education to the style of healthy life (regular exercise, healthy nutrition, not to smoke, suitable caring himself and acceptable social relation) are suggested from hygienic personnel during this period.
Sehhatie Shafai Fahimeh , Sadeghi Khamneh Sedigheh , Hossein Kushavar and Sheybaei Fatemeh , 2007. The Review on Lifestyle and its Relation with the Pregnancy Outcomes in the Pregnant Women Coming to Educational Hospitals of Tabriz in 2004 . Research Journal of Medical Sciences, 1: 91-94.