Factors Related to Anxiety of First-time Fathers During Labour
Keywords:
fathers’ age, social support, anxiety, first-time fathers, childbirth, labour periodAbstract
First-time fathers usually experience anxiety while their wives are in labour. It is often overlooked because most people pay attention to the mothers. The purpose of this descriptive correlational research study was to explore the anxiety of first-time fathers during their wife’s labour and other related factors. The subjects were selected following the inclusion criteria and consisted of 85 fathers who brought their wives to the labour room at Chiang Mai Health Promoting Hospital from August to October 2015. The research tools were the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory [STAI] form Y-1 by Spielberger (1983), Thai version by Nontasak, Iamsupasit & Thapinta (1995) and the Fathers Social Support Questionnaire developed by Ratchaneewan Charuloedphong and Nantaporn Sansiriphun based on the social support concept by House (1981) and literature reviewed. Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s Product moment correlation were used to analyze the data.
Results of the study revealed that:
- Most subjects had moderate level of anxiety (68.30%) while the mean score for anxiety was 43.29 (S.D. = 6.07);
- Most subjects (62.35%) received a high level of social support while the mean score
for social support was 3.80 (S.D. = .49);
- The subjects (34.20%) were of the ages 20 – 25 years old and 26 – 30 years old
(29.40%). The mean age was 28.51 (S.D. = 5.95); and
- Social support had a negative correlation with the anxiety of first-time fathers during the childbirth labour of their wives (r = -.274, p < .05) while there was no correlation between the first-time fathers’ age and their level of anxiety.
These finding suggest that first-time fathers should be assessed for anxiety. Nurses and midwives should develop strategies to decrease the anxiety of the father while their wives are in labour by providing support which meets the needs of the fathers.
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