Physical Activity and Hemoglobin Level Among Married Women During Childbearing Age in Mosul

Abstract

Women S heal th
1n
general
IS
affected
blo loCical factors. Physical acti vity o f women lhrough va.It ous riomestic and occupati onal works
by  \'arlous  lmportant  social   cultural,  behavioral,  and
di ffers acco rd rng
of physical  acti vt
to thei r age, educali ofl, pregnancy statUS, and general
ty on hemogl ob ln leve  should  not be I gno red   special Iv when constdering
health status. The effect
women s  health  duri ng  childbearing  age  ( I )-49 )  whether  pregnant  OI  non-pregnant        the
women
more prone to rtotl de ficlency
pregnancy  physical efforf, and
the relati on between  physical  act 1
insufhcient dietary lron.  The arm of this study rs to determine
anem la d uc to largeIy IosS   o f blood with menstruation,
randomly selected
age.        ctos S   sectional  study  desi gn  was  adopted of 9 I 1
tty and alrel]t r a state of MAITI ed women during childbearing
PII mary health  care centers.  These  centers  \Yere  (AI.S ukar
married  women  were seen  al four
Hadbaa and AI Mansoor
), during the period llom I St August 2007 to I st of February 200 8  The
Al-Sharq l,     I
I nterview wzlli face-to- face, ruti I ization the lntemational
verslon, 2002 to determ lne
Physical   ctivity Quest
lonnalle the long
collection
tooI   incl ude,
the
the level o f physical  acti vity  The I nformation incl uded   n the data
measunng of hemogl obin level  The study shows that half of non- pregnant were anemlc and
socio-demographi c  chamct€r,  i evels   of physicai  acti vity   and
hal f of the pregnants  were anem
were
havlng h eavy acti vities and 5    2% of the women    ith moderate acti  ities were suffering
lc too  The study revealed thar two thirds of the women     ho
from anemia according  to FIb level  ThiS   studv concluded  that hal f of the sample WEIS  anemlc
and had assoclation with physical effort, SO  that
rncreasrng the attenti on towa.rds provl ding better health
omen ln ch I I dbearing age need special ca.te by
care S errflces I n antenatal cate center.