Trial reportBMJ open2021
Investigating the effect of relationship satisfaction on postpartum women's health-related quality of life in Burkina Faso: a cross-sectional analysis.
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- Effectiveness of the Natural Breast Self-Circulation Program on Postpartum Breast Engorgement, Mental Health, and Quality of Life Among Early Postpartum Women: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Impact of Urinary Incontinence, Sexual Dysfunction, and Depressive Symptoms on Health-Related Quality of Life Over the 12-Month Postpartum Period.The journal of nursing research : JNR · 2025Article
- Mothers' and Fathers' Experiences of Family Relations and Parenting During the First Year of Parenthood.PsyCh journal · 2025Article
- Association of relationship satisfaction with blood pressure: a cross-sectional study of older adults in rural Burkina Faso.BMJ open · 2024Article
- The effect of perceived social support on postpartum stress: the mediating roles of marital satisfaction and maternal postnatal attachment.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- Health-related quality of life measured by SF-36 among postdelivery mothers attending maternal and child health clinic in Eastern Nepal: a cross-sectional study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- The impact of family social support on postpartum quality of life among Iranian women: structural equation modelling.The Journal of international medical research · 2023Article
- Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso.SSM. Mental health · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionThe period following childbirth poses physiological, physical, social and psychological challenges to women that may affect their quality of life. Few studies in Africa have explored women's health-related quality of life (HrQoL) and its determinants in postpartum populations, including the quality of women's relationships with their male partners. We investigated whether relationship satisfaction was associated with better HrQoL among postpartum women in Burkina Faso, 8 months after childbirth.
methodsWe analysed data from 547 women from the control arm of a randomised controlled trial in Burkina Faso. The study outcome was a woman's HrQoL, assessed using the cross-culturally validated WHOQOL-BREF tool, with response categories adapted for Burkina Faso. The exposure was relationship satisfaction measured using questions adapted from the Dyadic Adjustment Scale and Marital Assessment Test tools. We calculated the median HrQOL scores for the study sample, overall and for each domain of HrQOL (physical, psychological, social and environmental). The association between relationship satisfaction and HrQoL was examined using multiple linear regression models with robust SEs.
resultsPostpartum women had high median HrQoL scores in the physical (88.1), psychological (93.1), social (86.1) and environmental (74.0) domains and overall HrQoL (84.0). We found that higher relationship satisfaction is associated with increased HrQoL. After adjusting for potential confounders, we found that for each point increase in relationship satisfaction score, the increase in HrQoL was 0.39 (p<0.001) for the overall HrQoL; 0.32 (p=0.013) for the physical domain; 0.25 (p=0.037) for the psychological domain; 0.46 (p<0.001) for the social domain and 0.49 (p<0.001) for the environmental domain.
conclusionHigher relationship satisfaction is associated with higher HrQoL scores. Policies should aim to support women to cope with the challenges of childbirth and childcare in the postpartum period to improve postpartum women's HrQoL.
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