Evaluation of Toxoplasmosis Risk on Anxiety And Perception of Cat Owner Pregnant Women

Authors : Nur DOKUZEYLÜL GÜNGÖR, Tuğba GÜRBÜZ, Selma BOZKURT, Banu DOKUZEYLÜL, Erman OR, Ferhat CENGİZ

Pages : 154-158

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Publication Date : 2021-04-03

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Abstract Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate toxoplasmosis risk on anxiety and perception of cat owner pregnant women Method: A Health Anxiety Inventory insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(HAI-18); was used to measure the anxiety of participants. Age and anxiety variables were analyzed using a two-sample independent t-test. Gravida, education, and job status were analyzed using chi-square tests, and Live to abort ratio & pregnancy number were analyzed using Fisher exact test. Results: Measurement of the anxiety level between the two groups showed that anxiety is significantly higher among the pregnant women who feed cats in their house with an average of 32.03insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(±8.72);. The average anxiety level among the pregnant women who don`t have cats in their house was 25.94 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(±8.99);. The difference between the Health Anxiety Inventory of the two groups was significant insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(P-Value: 0.0001); Conclusion: Our results showed that pregnant women who own cats at home had, on average, more environmental anxiety than women who don’t feed cats at home.
Keywords : toxoplasmosis, pregnancy, cat owner, anxiety

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