Research Says Immigrant Pregnant Females in Spain Suffer from Stress

A study executed at the University of Granada has figured out that most immigrant woman’s who give birth in Spain suffer "severe stress" and will receive psychological therapy even after giving birth to help them overcome problems for example obsessive compulsive problem, phobic anxiety, melancholy or psychoticism. Each of these disorders is because of "the stress of labor itself together with other personal tension factors. It is a very stressful moment in women's life on account of biological, psychological and societal factors".

This research has been performed by Francisca Pérez Ramírez and organized by Inmaculada García García and Isabel Peralta Ramírez at the University Of Granada Department Of Nursing. The research also exposed that in fact immigrant women generally enter the pregnancy check-up system six weeks later compared to Spanish women, as they simply enter it at 12 weeks of gestation, whereas Spanish female commence at 6-7 weeks. Consequently, they carry out less ultrasound scans.

Francisca Pérez reveals that they actually found significant distinctions in immigrant women's attendance to having a baby classes. "Spanish women participate in childbirth classes considerably more frequently compared to immigrant women, perhaps simply because classes are held in the workplace hours or since they are given in Spanish".