JURNAL INTERNASIONAL KEBIDANAN 2020-2023 UNIVERSITAS KEDOKTERAN GUILAN VOLUME 31 ISSUE 3.
JOURNAL OF HOLISTIC NURSING OF MIDWIFERY.
Effect of Midwife-led Counseling on the Quality of Life of Women With Body Image Concerns During Postpartum

JURNAL INTERNASIONAL KEBIDANAN 2020-2023 UNIVERSITAS KEDOKTERAN GUILAN VOLUME 31 ISSUE 3.
JOURNAL OF HOLISTIC NURSING OF MIDWIFERY.
Effect of Midwife-led Counseling on the Quality of Life of Women With Body Image Concerns During Postpartum

Body image, Quality of life, Postpartum

Introduction: During pregnancy and postpartum, women bet more concerned and dissatisfied
with their bodies. Primiparous women face more physical and mental health problems in the
postpartum period.
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effect of a midwife-based counseling program
on the quality of life in women with body image concerns during postpartum.
Materials and Methods: This randomized controlled trial was conducted on 64 primiparous
women with body image concerns who had been referred to the health centers in Alborz
Province, Iran, in January 2019. The convenience sampling method was used for recruiting
the study participants. Then, the samples were assigned to the intervention and control

groups by random number table allocation. Next, the intervention group received a three-
session counseling program. The data gathering questionnaire in this study included a

Multi-Dimensional Body Self-Relation Questionnaire (MBSRQ) and a 36-item short-form
quality of life questionnaire. Questionnaires were completed before, immediately after,
and one month after the intervention. The obtained data were analyzed using descriptive
statistics, the Chi-square test, Fisher exact test, and repeated measures test.
Results: The Mean±SD age of the study participants was 26.4±5.4 years. Also, 94%of the
samples had wanted pregnancy, 54% had a vaginal delivery, and 59.4% were overweight. There
was no statistically significant difference between the control and intervention groups before
the intervention regarding their demographic characteristics. The results of the Analysis of
Variance (ANOVA) with repeated measures test indicated that the length of time affected the
total scores of multi-dimensional body self-relation (P=0.001). Also, the repeated measures
ANOVA results showed that time significantly impacted the quality of life score (P=0.001).
Conclusion: The study results showed that a midwife-led counseling program could affect the
score of quality of life in women with body image concerns in postpartum.

Sedigheh Salehi , Zohreh Mahmoodi , Alireza Jashni Motlagh , Mitra Rahimzadeh , Mina Ataee , Sara Esmaelzadeh-Saeieh

July 2021, Volume 31, Number 3

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