The relationship between sleep problems and childhood trauma with the mediation of resilience in pregnant women

Pregnancy is one of the most important events in a woman's life and is often considered as a period of excitement, expectation and change. The Aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between sleep problems and childhood trauma with the mediation of resilience in pregnant women in Tehran.

An analytical-correlational study was conducted on 288 pregnant women who referred to medical centers in Tehran in the first half of 2023. Pregnant women were selected by targeted non-random sampling method.. Three questionnaires of sleep problems, resilience of Connor and Davidson (CD-RISC) and childhood trauma (CTQ) were completed by pregnant women. The obtained data were analyzed by SPSS-27 and LISREL-8/8 software and Pearson correlation tests and structural equations.

The average age of pregnant women was (32.58±9.6) and the majority of them (41.5%) had a bachelor's degree.The findings confirmed the existence of a relationship between childhood trauma (r=0.25) and resilience (r=-0.21) with the dependent variable of sleep problems (p<0.01), which shows that the increase in resilience reduces sleep problems. will follow Also, childhood trauma had a significant relationship with resilience variable (p<0.01, r=-0.20) and it was shown with a coefficient of determination of 37% of the variance. The fit of the model was higher than average and a good value.

Based on the obtained results, it is suggested to focus more on childhood problems and injuries and the resilience of pregnant women so that they can experience less sleep problems during pregnancy.