Background: Sleep disturbance during pregnancy is an essential part of public health
and a key feature of human development .Aim of this study to assess the effect of sleep
disturbance during pregnancy on maternal and fetal outcomes and its related nursing
management Research design: Descriptive design Setting: Ante natal care unit at El Shiekh
Zaied Hospital in Cairo city-Egypt. Sample: A purposive sample consisted of hundred pregnant
women was selected according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. Tool: Data was collected
through an interviewing questionnaire, The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Nursing
management of sleep disturbance during pregnancy. Result: This study reveals that sleep
disturbance during pregnancy affect on maternal and fetal outcomes and good maternal
behavior from near half pre- intervention to majority in post intervention, The difference was
highly significant statistically (P=0.000).Conclusion: The present study concluded that, the
sleep disturbance during pregnancy already affect on maternal and fetal outcomes as:
gestational hypertension and low birth weight. As well as the many of studied pregnant
women's behavior of nursing intervention was changed improvement in posttest compared with
the pretest and showed highly significant statistically between pretest and posttest (P Value
0.000). The result of this study supports the research question Recommendations: Conducting
comprehensive health educational programs to raise awareness and promote women's health
during pregnancy pertaining to sleep disturbances and healthy behavior to manage them.