Maternal psychological and physiologic correlates of fetal-newborn health status.
Data were obtained from 32 primigravid women in pregnancy and in labor. Anxiety in labor, measured by a self-report inventory, and plasma epinephrine were significantly correlated with the fetal heart rate pattern in active-phase labor (3 to 10 cm of cervical dilatation). The fetal heart rate pattern was significantly correlated with Apgar scores at 1 and 5 minutes. Conflict in the acceptance of pregnancy, measured in prenatal interviews, predicted anxiety and epinephrine levels in labor and the 5-minute Apgar score.
D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000097:blood; D001034:Apgar Score; D004837:Epinephrine / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D005318:Fetal Heart / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D011247:Pregnancy
D004837:Epinephrine