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Stress (prenatal and perinatal)
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Stress can be defined as a mentally or emotionally disruptive or upsetting condition that occurs in response to adverse external influences1. Stress experienced by a woman during her pregnancy can have an impact on her physical and emotional functioning.
Of Canadian women between the ages of 18 and 34 (women of childbearing age), 27.7% sustain intense daily stress, compared with 23.9% for their male counterparts2.
Working during pregnancy may have an impact on the level of stress (self-perceived or objectively assessed). In the U.S. and Canada, most men and women are in the labour force at the time their first child is born, and about 60% of women with a child under three years of age are employed3.
References
- Selye H. Stress without distress. London, England: Hodder and Stoughton; 1974.
- Statistics Canada. Health indicators. Life stress. Available at: http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2004002/nonmed/personal3.htm. Accessed May 19, 2005.
- Normand J, Lindsay C, Chard J, Besserer S, Pottie Bunge V, Tait H, Almey M, Zukewich N. Women in Canada 2000: a gender-based statistical report. Ottawa, Ontario: Statistics Canada; 2000. Cat. No. 89-503-XPE.
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Last update : 07-03-2009
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