Background: Around 20% of birthing women report high levels of childbirth fear. Fear potentially impacts women’s emotional health, preparation for birth, and birth outcomes. Evidence suggests that personal and external factors contribute to childbirth fear, however results vary. Aim: To identify pyscho-social factors associated with childbirth fear and possible antenatal predictors of childbirt...

BACKGROUND Childbirth fear is reported to affect around 20% of women. However reporting on levels of symptom severity vary. Unlike Scandinavian countries, there has been limited focus on childbirth fear in Australia. The aim of this paper is to determine the prevalence of low, moderate, high and severe levels of childbirth fear in a large representative sample of pregnant women drawn from a lar...

OBJECTIVE To study the associations of anxiety and depression with fear of childbirth. DESIGN A cross-sectional questionnaire study. SETTING Prenatal public healthcare in Norway. SAMPLE Pregnant women (n=1642) recruited during November 2008 until April 2010. METHODS Data were collected by a postal questionnaire at pregnancy week 32. Fear of childbirth was measured by the Wijma Delivery ...

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OBJECTIVES To describe the association between fear of childbirth and social, demographic and psychological factors in a cohort of 30 480 healthy nulliparous women with uncomplicated singleton pregnancies. DESIGN Nationwide population-based study. SETTING The Danish National Birth Cohort. POPULATION Healthy nulliparous women (n= 30 480) with singleton pregnancies. METHODS Data from comp...

background & aim: the fear of childbirth is defined as the fear experienced before, during and after birth. this study was carried out to study the relationship between fear of childbirth and obstetric variables . methods & materials : : this cross sectional study was conducted in a state hospital in kars, turkey on 403 pregnant women who were recruited from the delivery ward. the convenience s...

BACKGROUND Childbirth fear is associated with increased obstetric interventions and poor emotional and psychological health for women. The purpose of this study is to test an antenatal psycho-education intervention by midwives in reducing women's childbirth fear. METHODS Women (n = 1,410) attending three hospitals in South East Queensland, Australia, were recruited into the BELIEF trial. Part...

annually, many women become pregnant worldwide; however, pregnancy and childbirth is not a pleasant event for all them. in fact, more than 90% of maternal anxiety could be related to the delivery process. it should be noted that delivery is also a stressful event that sometimes, due to different reasons and in order to avoid its potential hazards which could threaten the lives of mother and bab...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of fear of childbirth in a nationwide sample and its association with subsequent rates of caesarean section and overall experience of childbirth. DESIGN A prospective study using between-group comparisons. SETTING About 600 antenatal clinics in Sweden. SAMPLE A total of 2,662 women recruited at their first visit to an antenatal clinic during three p...