Health-Related Quality of Life Among Chinese Pregnant Women in the Third Trimester Based on Theory of Unpleasant Symptoms: A Complex Network Analysis

Yueyang Hu, Mengzi Sun, Junsong Fei, Cuicui Meng, Tongshuang Yuan, Jianping Lv, Xinmeng Guo, Yixi Kong, Han Zhang, Songli Mei and Fuju Wu

Clinical Nursing Research, 2023, vol. 32, issue 3, 549-559

Abstract: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is the result of complex interactions between many different factors. But few studies to date have explored the structure of HRQOL. This study aimed to investigate the complex inter-relationship between HRQOL and influencing factors using network analysis. In all, 624 Chinese pregnant women in third trimester were recruited through recruiting sampling. We used regularized network analysis to create a complex network. The relationship with mother-in-law was the most central node followed by relationship with partner. We found the comorbidity of anxiety and depressive symptoms using network analysis. Physical- and mental-related quality of life were a “bridge node†connecting psychological factors with physiologic factors. The present network analysis highlights the strong link between relationship with mother-in-law or partner and HRQOL, which is also a unique phenomenon under Chinese culture. This analysis provides key variables for future intervention or improvement of pregnant women’ HRQOL.

Keywords: pregnant women; health-related quality of life; complex network analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/10547738221146052

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