Proactive Coping in Early Pregnancy and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes.

Outside of pregnancy, proactive coping has been associated with both mental and physical well-being and with improved quality of life in chronic disease, but its effects in pregnancy are understudied. Our objective was to evaluate whether early pregnancy proactive coping was associated with adverse perinatal outcomes. This was a planned secondary analysis of nulliparous pregnant people recruited from a tertiary care center. Participants completed a validated assessment of proactive coping ( Of the 281 parturients, the median Proactive Coping Scale score was 45.0 (range 25-55), and 47% experienced an adverse perinatal outcome. After adjusting for confounders, those in the lowest Proactive Coping Scale quartile had 2.2 times higher odds of experiencing an adverse perinatal outcome compared to those in the highest Proactive Coping Scale quartile. There were no differences in odds of the individual composite components or the adverse neonatal outcome. Lower early pregnancy proactive coping scores are associated with significant increase in adverse perinatal outcomes. Interventions that target improving proactive coping may be a novel mechanism for reducing perinatal morbidity. Proactive coping is the process of preparing for a stressor or goal, which has been studied in the context of chronic disease. We sought to understand how proactive coping relates to pregnancy outcomes. Our results indicated that higher proactive coping scores were associated with lower risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. Therefore, interventions to increase proactive coping may have a role in reducing adverse pregnancy outcomes.

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Dr Adam Lewkowitz is advisory board of Shields Pharmaceuticals in 2021 and Pharmacosmos Therapeutics in 2022; he also reports grants from Pharmacosmos Therapeutics paid to his institution, outside the submitted work. Dr Emily Miller reports grants from Pfizer, outside the submitted work. The authors have no other conflicts of interest to disclose for this work.