the impact of self-care counseling on quality of life in pregnant women with gestational hypertension

Background & aim: pregnancy with high blood pressure is one of the high-riskpregnancies and requires more healthcare to prevent maternal and fetalcomplications. therefore, this study was designed to investigate the effect of selfcarecounseling on quality of life in pregnant women with hypertension.methods: this clinical trial was performed on 90 pregnant women withgestational hypertension referred to sabzevar health centers between 2021 and2022. sample were selected by convenience sampling and divided intointervention and control groups by random assignment. in addition to receivingroutine care sessions, the intervention group received four 45- to 60-minutesessions of self-care counseling according to the gather model each week. thecontrol group received routine care. data were collected using a quality of lifequestionnaire (sf-36) and analyzed by spss software version 25 using independentand paired t-test, mann-whitney and analysis of covariance.results: there was no significant difference in the mean quality of life score in theintervention and control group (47/33 ± 5/65 vs 49/77 ± 5/55) before intervention.however, after the intervention, there was a significant difference between the twogroups (p <0/001). the mean score of quality of life in the intervention group was76/07 ± 5/01 and in the control group was 48/73 ± 6/75.conclusion: considering the effect of self-care counseling on quality of lifeimprovement in pregnant women with hypertensive disorders, it is recommendedto tailor and implement such counseling interventions to increase quality of life inthese vulnerable population during pregnancy.