Effect of Informational Support on Quality of Life among Pregnant Women with Antiphospholipid Syndrome

Antiphospholipid syndrome is a disorder of the immune system that is characterized by excessive clotting of blood and adverse pregnancy outcome which affects negatively on women’s quality of life.

Aim: Evaluate the effect of informational support on quality of life among pregnant women having antiphospholipid syndrome.

Design: Quasi- experimental design (One group only pretest – post test design) was adopted purposive sample of 43 pregnant women with antiphospholipid syndrome.

Setting: The high-risk pregnancy department at obstetrics and gynecology Cairo University Hospitals. Two tools of data collection were used: an interviewing questionnaire, the Arabic version of World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire.

Results: There was improvement and a highly statistically significant difference between the perception of pregnant women as regard to rating their quality of life and health satisfaction before and after informational support; the social relationships domain, presented the highest mean score (13.64±3.32) was assessed as the domain with the best perception of QOL and the environment domain was associated with the lowest score (8.56±2.56) considered the worst perception of QOL there was a better perception of quality of life physical and environmental domains after informational support.

Conclusion: Before the implementation of informational support, the worst QOL domains were environmental then psychological domain, while after informational support there was an obvious improvement related to environmental and physical domains.

Recommendation: Implement informational support as a part of nursing care protocol in high risk pregnancy department.