Abstract
[Purpose] To clarify and conceptually analyze “minor troubles” during pregnancy and to consider care for pregnant women as a part of nursing practice.
[Methods] The concept analysis approach by Rodgers was used. Data were collected and analyzed from 18 references that were identified using the searching keyword for “minor trouble” by Medical Magazine Web (Ver. 5).
[Results] The attributes identified were “condition accompanied by discomfort,” “fluctuate according to the number of gestational weeks,” and “no adverse effect on birth.” The prerequisites of “morphological change,” and “endocrine change” were extracted as types of awareness of change awareness due to pregnancy, and “change in living environment” were was extracted as change affected by pregnancy. Furthermore, the consequences found to affect pregnant women regarding “to have difficulties in life” that were extracted were “suppression of hope and pleasure for childbirth and child-rearing,” “understanding of the surroundings cannot be obtained,” and “to endure the pain relief and give up.”
[Conclusion] We thus defined the concept of a minor trouble in pregnancy as “a subjective phenomenon of a pregnant woman who is in a condition that is accompanied by fluctuating discomfort (depending on the number of gestational weeks) and has no adverse effect on childbirth.” Conceptual analysis of minor troubles during pregnancy is necessary in order to provide knowledge about such troubles, to check pregnant women’s conditions by listening to them, and to have a viewpoint that will affect pregnant women.
