Effect of Social Support on Fear of Childbirth Among Primiparous Parturients
Keywords:
social support, fear of childbirth, primiparous parturients, midwiferyAbstract
Fear of childbirth impacts the physiological and psychological health of parturients including their fetus. Therefore, care that lessens fear of childbirth is an important role of nurse-midwives. This quasi-experimental research study aimed to examine the effect of social support on fear of childbirth among primiparous parturients. The subjects were 30 primiparous parturients admitted at the labor unit in the Health Promotion Hospital, Health Promotion Center Region 1, Chiang Mai between June and July 2016. The subjects were selected and assigned in equal numbers into experimental and control groups and matched for age of parturients, medical induction, history of abortion and husband attendance. Subjects in the experimental group received social support from the nurse-midwife, while subjects in the control group received routine care. The research instruments were the social support plan developed by the researcher based on the social support model of Bogossian (2007) and the Fear of Birth Scale by Haines and others (2011). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, one-way repeated measures ANOVA and an independent t-test.
The result of the study revealed that the experimental group had significantly lower fear of childbirth than the control group (p < .01)
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