Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction

Preeclampsia (PE) accounts for approximately 2–5% of pregnancies, leading to several maternal-fetal complications. The present study aimed to review types of interventions affecting blood pressure and anxiety in women suffering from mild PE.

Materials and methods

This study was a narrative review based on keywords determined by the MeSH terms. For this purpose, the databases of PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar, Scientific Information Database (SID), and Magiran were searched using the keywords of ’preeclampsia, intervention, blood pressure, anxiety, EPH-gestosis, pregnancy toxemia, and toxemia of pregnancy’ in Persian and English for relevant articles published from 1980 to 2020. The inclusion criteria were all randomized clinical trials (RCTs) associated with interventions affecting blood pressure and anxiety in cases with mild PE.

Results

a total number of 16 RCTs were reviewed in this study. After reviewing, 12 articles were recruited for developing this study and the non-relevant cases were excluded. Accordingly, interventions affecting blood pressure and anxiety in women with mild PE were classified into four groups: Group 1: psychological–educational interventions, Group 2: complementary medicine interventions, Group 3: pharmacological interventions, and Group 4: others.

Conclusion

Health care providers are suggested to reflect on these interventions and make use of this classification of interventions in accordance with patients’ conditions when hospitalizing women with mild PE.

Keywords

Mild Preeclampsia, Intervention, Anxiety, Blood Pressure, Review