title: Association between hypertension and quality of life in pregnancy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the association between hypertension in pregnancy and women's quality of life (QoL) and the variation in the quality of life over gestational trimesters.
  
  
  METHODS
  A questionnaire was applied to 194 hypertensive pregnant women and 195 pregnant women without complications. The questionnaire was composed of two parts: socioeconomic profile and specifically QoL, using the instrument Ferrans & Powers Quality of Life Index. All women included underwent a physical examination.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Blood pressure was found to be approximately 20 mmHg higher in hypertensive pregnant women compared to pregnant women without complications. All QoL domains of hypertensive pregnant women had lower scores than those of pregnant women without complications, with health/functioning rated the lowest, averaging 17.63. The least affected domain was family, having the best average score (26.0). The QoL had no significant variations in relation to gestational trimesters.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pregnancy causes intense changes, both physical and psychological, in women's lives and hypertension was found to be a factor of high interference in pregnant woman's QoL, causing lower scores in all QoL domains of hypertensive pregnant women, compared with pregnant woman without complications.
authors.affiliation: a Faculdade Santa Maria, Departamento de Enfermagem , Santa Maria , Paraiba , Brazil.|b Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Ciências da Saúde , Brazil , Recife , Brazil.
authors.forename: Kellly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Patrícia Medeiros Falcão
authors.affiliation: c Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Departamento de Saúde da Coletividade, Santo André , São Paulo , Brazil.
authors.forename: Thaiany
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pedrozo Campos Antunes
authors.affiliation: a Faculdade Santa Maria, Departamento de Enfermagem , Santa Maria , Paraiba , Brazil.|c Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Departamento de Saúde da Coletividade, Santo André , São Paulo , Brazil.
authors.forename: Ankilma
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: do Nascimento Andrade Feitosa
authors.affiliation: b Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Ciências da Saúde , Brazil , Recife , Brazil.
authors.forename: Edgar Guimarães
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Victor
authors.affiliation: a Faculdade Santa Maria, Departamento de Enfermagem , Santa Maria , Paraiba , Brazil.
authors.forename: Milena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nunes Alves de Sousa
authors.affiliation: c Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Departamento de Saúde da Coletividade, Santo André , São Paulo , Brazil.|d Universidade Regional do Cariri , Cariri , Brazil.|e University of São Paulo, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Sao Paulo, Brazil; eHarvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard University , Boston , MA , USA .
authors.forename: Luiz Carlos
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: de Abreu
authors.affiliation: a Faculdade Santa Maria, Departamento de Enfermagem , Santa Maria , Paraiba , Brazil.|c Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Departamento de Saúde da Coletividade, Santo André , São Paulo , Brazil.
authors.forename: Elisangela
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vilar de Asis
authors.affiliation: a Faculdade Santa Maria, Departamento de Enfermagem , Santa Maria , Paraiba , Brazil.|c Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Departamento de Saúde da Coletividade, Santo André , São Paulo , Brazil.
authors.forename: Ocilma
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Barros de Quental
authors.affiliation: d Universidade Regional do Cariri , Cariri , Brazil.|e University of São Paulo, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Sao Paulo, Brazil; eHarvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard University , Boston , MA , USA .
authors.forename: Italla Maria
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Pinheiro Bezerra
authors.affiliation: a Faculdade Santa Maria, Departamento de Enfermagem , Santa Maria , Paraiba , Brazil.
authors.forename: Humberto
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Azevedo de Freitas Junior
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D046110:Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011247:Pregnancy; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D056152:Respiratory Rate / Q000502:physiology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Gestational hypertension; health; pregnancy; pregnancy complications; quality of life