Year: 2021
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Childbirth self-efficacy is an important indicator of pregnant women’s ability to cope with labour and birth. The purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to explore the relationship between anxiety, childbirth experience and childbirth self-efficacy of pregnant women. Participants included eighty-five multigravid women with gestational age between 36-41 weeks who attended the antenatal clinic at Health Promoting Hospital, 1st Regional Health Promoting Center, Chiang Mai from May to August 2017. The research tools were the Thai Childbirth Self-Efficacy Inventory by Lowe (1993), the Thai version by Tanglakmankhong and others (2010), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory form Y-1 by Spielberger (1976), the Thai version by Tatree Nontasak, Sompoch Iamsupasit, and Darawan Thapinta (1991) and the Perceived Childbirth Experience by Michels, Kruske and Thompson (2013), the Thai version by Chavee Baosoung and Nantaporn Sansiriphun (2017). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. Result of the study revealed that: Participants had a mean score for anxiety of 41.34 (S.D. = 7.88), which was at a moderate level of anxiety. Participants had a mean score for childbirth experience of 4.09 (S.D. = .80), which was at a high level of positive childbirth experience. The mean score for total childbirth self-efficacy of participants was 232.59 (S.D. = 52.32), which was at a high level of childbirth self-efficacy. The participants’ mean score for self-efficacy expectancy was 115.78 (S.D. = 28.29) and for outcome expectancy was 116.81 (S.D. = 25.92). Both were at a high level of expectancy. Anxiety was negatively statistically significant associated with childbirth self-efficacy of pregnant women (r = -.42, p < .01). Childbirth experience was positively statistically significant associated with childbirth self-efficacy of pregnant women. (r = .50, p < .01). The findings from this study can be used as baseline data for planning effective nursing care to promote childbirth self-efficacy of pregnant women.
Source: Nursing Journal CMU
Institution: Chiang Mai University
Language: Thai
Subfield: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7216773820