ArticleJournal of patient-reported outcomes2018
The association between pregnancy, pelvic girdle pain and health-related quality of life - a comparison of two instruments.
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- Prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics and maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum period: a systematic review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- The Impact of Social Support and Pregnancy on Subjective Well-Being: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Impact of coccydynia on quality of life, function, and neuromuscular control in women with third trimester pelvic girdle pain: a cross-sectional study.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026Article
- Observing life from the sideline - a qualitative study on experiences of living with pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- The ımpact of pelvic girdle pain on quality of life and depressive symptoms during pregnancy.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2026Article
- Experiences of digital physiotherapy during pregnancy and after childbirth: A qualitative study.Internet interventions · 2024Article
- Level of activity limitations and predictors in women with pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain: Prospective cross-sectional study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
- Psychosocial and behavioural characteristics in women with pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain 12 years postpartum.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2019Article
- Lumbopelvic pain and sick leave during pregnancy: A comparison of Italy and Norway.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe main purposes in this cross-sectional study were to study the impact of pregnancy and pelvic girdle pain (PGP) on health related quality of life (HRQoL), by comparing the scores on different domains of two HRQoL instruments in pregnant women with population norms as well as in women with severe and less severe PGP. Further, to explore the association between PGP and HRQoL and whether the two instruments differ in the way they assess the influence of PGP on HRQoL.
methodsPregnant women in gestation week 30 completed questionnaires containing the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP). Additional variables, self-reported PGP, pain location in the pelvis and response on clinical tests were also collected. HRQoL scores were compared with expected age adjusted mean scores and comparisons between groups with different severity of PGP were made, using Mann-Whitney U, t-tests and Hodges-Lehman method.
resultsTwo hundred eighty-three pregnant women, mean age 31.3 (SD 4.2) years, participated. We found statistical significant differences in all domains of both HRQoL instruments in late pregnancy compared to the expected age-adjusted means of the reference populations (
conclusionsBoth instruments revealed changes in HRQoL in pregnant women compared with population norms. Pregnancy itself influences HRQoL and having PGP gave an additional impact. The consistency of the correlations between SF-36 and NHP domains across the sub-groups found in this study suggests convergent validity across levels of impairment. The results in social domains vary between SF-36 and NHP in pregnant women and might be due to the basic design (construction) of the tools.
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