Summary: | This study is a correlation research carried out in order to determine pregnant women's attitude towards the mothering role and its relationship to the onset and duration of nausea and vomiting . This study included 130 women who were patients , at health treatment centers in the city of Sari had previous delivery and had no known physical or psychological illness at the time of the research which included nausea and vomiting . All subjects ' gestational age was less than 18 weeks. To collect data, a three part questionnaire was constructed . The first part was concerned with the characteristics of the participants . In the second part, their attitudes towards the mothering role was assessed and the third part contained data about the onset and duration of nausea and vomiting . In analyzing the data, descriptive and inferal statistics were used. This research data were collected in absolute and comparative frequency distribution tables and in order to determine the relationship between pregnant women 's attitude towards the mothering role and variables such as age , age at first pregnancy, years of marriage, educational level , number of pregnancies, occupational status and income of the fam ily and also to determine the relationship between pregnant women 's attitude towards the mothering role and onset and duration of nausea and vomiting, the chi-square and fisher exact test were used . The results of this study revealed that the majority of clients (43%) were 20-24 years old and the age at marriage of56.1% of clients less than 20 years. Age at first pregnancy in 43.9% of clients was between 20-24 years. 56.9% were married less than one year. 37% had primary school education, 93.7% were house-wives and 48.5% were from low income families. The result of this study shows that the majority of subjects (70%) had a neutral attitude towards the mothering role and also a majority of them (61.54%) had nausea and vomiting, 23.85% had the symptoms for 3 months . The findings of this study showed that there is a relationship between the level of income of the subjects and onset and duration of nausea and vomiting . Also the results of this study showed that there is no relationship between the attitude towards the mothering role and the onset and duration of nausea and vomiting . In conclusion, the researcher hopes that the authorities of the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education and staff midwives of health treatment centers find the contents of this study beneficial in decreasing nausea and vomiting . This study can be further developed in the same line. The investigator based on the findings of this study suggests that further research can be done in this respect, such as the effects of onset and duration of nausea and vomiting on pregnant women’s attitude towards the mothering role or determination of effective factors on the onset of nausea and vomiting and pregnant women's attitude towards the mothering role .
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