Motivation for motherhood in women with hypertensive diseases in pregnancy.
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the motivation for motherhood in women with hypertensive diseases in pregnancy.


METHODS
A questionnaire was sent to 2600 women with hypertensive diseases in pregnancy and 1233 controls. Diagnoses from medical records were differentiated according to the International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy criteria. After matching, data from 739 patients and 623 controls were evaluated with Student's-t, Chi square tests and multiple logistic regression models.


RESULTS
Women with hypertensive diseases in pregnancy longed more often for children (85.3%/70.3%, p < 0.0001), considered children more often as the sense of their life (33.6%/29.7%, p < 0.005) and used pregnancy more often to stop a disliked professional activity (9.7%/2.3%, p < 0.0001). Controls reported more often to give birth to avoid termination of pregnancy (5.3%/10.4%, p = 0.0005).


CONCLUSIONS
Women with hypertensive diseases in pregnancy concentrate more extensively on motherhood in their life. If this attitude is already present before pregnancy it may augment the risk for disease and might be used for prophylaxis.
Leeners
Brigitte
B
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Swizterland. brigitte.leeners@usz.ch
Neumaier-Wagner
Peruka
P
Kuse
Sabine
S
Merki
Susanne
S
Stiller
Ruth
R
Neises
Mechthild
M
Imthurn
Bruno
B
Rath
Werner
W
D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D046110:Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced / Q000523:psychology*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009042:Motivation; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000523:psychology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D049168:Pregnancy, Unplanned / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult