Journal article
Is self-management a burden? What are the experiences of women self-managing chronic conditions during pregnancy? A systematic review
- Abstract:
-
Objective This systematic review examines the qualitative literature on women’s experiences of self-managing chronic conditions in pregnancy.
Design Systematic review of qualitative literature. Searches were performed in PubMed and CINAHL from inception to February 2021. Critical interpretive synthesis informed the coding framework and the analysis of the data. The Burden of Treatment theory emerged during the initial analysis as having the most synergy with the included literature, themes were refined to consider key concepts from this theory.
Participants Pregnant women who are self-managing a chronic condition.
Results A total of 2695 articles were screened and 25 were reviewed in detail. All 16 included studies concerned diabetes self-management in pregnancy. Common themes coalesced around motivations for, and barriers to, self-management. Women self-managed primarily for the health of their baby. Barriers identified were anxiety, lack of understanding and a lack of support from families and healthcare professionals.
Conclusions Pregnant women have different motivating factors for self-management than the general population and further research on a range of self-management of chronic conditions in pregnancy is needed. PROSPERO registration number CRD42019136681.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Access Document
- Files:
-
-
(Preview, Version of record, 908.3KB, Terms of use)
-
- Publisher copy:
- 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051962
Authors
- Publisher:
- BMJ
- Journal:
- BMJ Open More from this journal
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 3
- Article number:
- e051962
- Publication date:
- 2022-03-18
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-02-27
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
2044-6055
- Language:
-
English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
1246433
- Local pid:
-
pubs:1246433
- Deposit date:
-
2022-03-25
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Jakubowski et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2022
- Rights statement:
- ©2022 Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial.
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record