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 QOLdomains 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.