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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundFear of childbirth is a prevalent issue among women, with a wide range of interventions to dispel it. Here we explored a novel and beneficial intervention and one possible influence mechanism of it.MethodsThe cross-sectional study recruited 1 ...
Shidi Liu +19 more
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Childbirth fear, birth-related mindset and knowledge in non-pregnant women without birth experience
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022 Background Childbirth fear and interventions during childbirth might be related to the mindset and knowledge non-pregnant women have regarding childbirth.
Lisa Rublein, Beate Muschalla
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Interventions for fear of childbirth including tocophobia [PDF]
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2021 Many women experience fear of childbirth (FOC). While fears about childbirth may be normal during pregnancy, some women experience high to severe FOC. At the extreme end of the fear spectrum is tocophobia, which is considered a specific condition that may cause distress, affect well-being during pregnancy and impede the transition to parenthood ...
O'Connell, Maeve Anne +4 more
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PRENATAL GENTLE YOGA HELPS PREGNANT WOMEN IN REDUCING FEAR OF CHILDBIRTH
Placentum, 2023 Background: Expectant mothers will experience physiological and psychological changes during pregnancy, including feeling fear of childbirth. Fear is a psychological condition that can raise catecholamine levels and decrease uterine contractions ...
Yunita Laila Astuti +3 more
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Spontaneous childbirth-related mental images among pregnant women: a mixed-method study. [PDF]
, 2018 Mental imagery may reflect the present, past or future. Childbirth is often anticipated with joy but also in some cases with fear, which may negatively impact on the childbirth experience.
Favrod, C. +4 more
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Screening for Perinatal Anxiety Using the Childbirth Fear Questionnaire: A New Measure of Fear of Childbirth [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Fear of childbirth affects as many as 20% of pregnant people, and has been associated with pregnancy termination, prolonged labour, increased risk of emergency and elective caesarean delivery, poor maternal mental health, and poor maternal-infant bonding.
Nichole Fairbrother +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 IntroductionPrenatal psychological distress is prevalent during pregnancy. This study aimed to estimate the associations among fear of childbirth, resilience and psychological distress.MethodsA total of 1,060 Chinese pregnant women were enrolled from Be ...
Xiaoxiao Mei +6 more
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Exploring women's fear of childbirth in a high maternal mortality setting on the Arabian Peninsula [PDF]
, 2015 Background. Few studies from low-income countries have addressed women's fear of childbirth (FOC) although likely to affect women during both pregnancy and childbirth.
Abdullah Taher, Samera +4 more
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2018 Background Fear of childbirth may reduce the womens’ pain tolerance during labour and may have impact on the mother-infant interaction. We aimed to assess (1) the association between fear of childbirth antepartum and subsequent request for ...
Sabine L. M. Logtenberg +6 more
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BMJ Open, 2023 Objective Adolescent pregnancy as a growing phenomenon in the world has been investigated from different aspects. However, the examination of childbirth fear and self-efficacy has received less attention.
Mojgan Mirghafourvand +2 more
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