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Association Between Gestational Weeks, Initial Maternal Perception of Fetal Movement, and Individual Interoceptive Differences in Pregnant Women: Cross-Sectional Study
Association Between Gestational Weeks, Initial Maternal Perception of Fetal Movement, and Individual Interoceptive Differences in Pregnant Women
Miku Furusho;
Minami Noda;
Yoko Sato;
Yoshiko Suetsugu;
Seiichi Morokuma
ABSTRACT
Background:
To determine whether the association between the gestational week of initial movement awareness and interoception can be a convenient evaluation index for interoception in pregnant women.
Objective:
This study aimed to clarify the association between the gestational week at the first awareness of fetal movements and interoception in pregnant women.
Methods:
Interoception was assessed using the heartbeat counting task, with gestational weeks at the first awareness of fetal movement recorded via a questionnaire. Spearman’s rank correlation was used to compare the gestational weeks at the first awareness of fetal movement and heart rate counting task scores.
Results:
A significant negative correlation was found between the gestational weeks at the first fetal movement awareness and heartbeat counting task performance among all participants (r=-0.43, P=0.01) and among primiparous women (r=-0.53, P=0.03), but not among multiparous women.
Conclusions:
Individual differences in interoception appear to correlate with the differences observed in the timing of the first awareness of fetal movement.
Citation
Please cite as:
Furusho M, Noda M, Sato Y, Suetsugu Y, Morokuma S
Association Between Gestational Weeks, Initial Maternal Perception of Fetal Movement, and Individual Interoceptive Differences in Pregnant Women: Cross-Sectional Study