I am going to measure the positive aspects of childbirth. The present scales measure negative aspects of pregnancy or childbirth such as fear of childbirth, the anxiety of pregnancy, and worry in pregnancy. I wonder whether there is a scale in English which measure opposite aspects such as the pleasure of pregnancy and childbirth.
Dear partner,
I know the Mackey Childbirth Satisfaction Rating Scale to measure women's satisfaction with labor and delivery. In my country, there are some studies that have used this scale. Chronbach's alpha coefficient reported for the Spanish version is 0.94 for the total scale, ranging from 0.72 to 0.96 for the subscales.Esta scale can be useful in measuring the satisfaction of women with the experience of the childbirth. I hope you will be of help. A greeting
Héctor Glez
PhD, MsC, RN-Midwife
Dear Farzaneh,
I found another scale "the Hollins Martin Birth Satisfaction Scale". Thank you.
I am interested in hearing the purpose of your study. it seems quite obvious that childbirth is joyful. There are so many unresearched questions in childbirth. What is the point of this one?
Dear Judy,
Nowadays pregnancy and childbirth are periods of stress for women in Iran due to screening programs, high probability of hospitalization during pregnancy, frequent sonography, small, primitive childbirth settings, and aggressive pain management (spinal and epidural anesthesia). I feel that pregnant women don't have good times in pregnancy. We as midwives and researchers measure the fear of childbirh, anxiety and their worries with scales which all increase the level of their fears. I think that at least using scales which measure positive aspects of pregnancy and childbirth can help them to think of pregnancy and childbirth pleasures. Although that is not enough, it does not add one more source of worry to their worries.
You may want to look at the Czech questionnaire KLI-P (71 items) designed to measure the psychosocial climate in both delivery and after-birth unit on six scales, and see if this is what you are looking to measure. Don't get discouraged; this is important work!
I am sorry you chose not to answer my question. I wonder if you do this research , which journal would publish it.
good luck
me too in search of a tool to measure fear of child birth among mothers in INDIA, heard about W-DEQ. Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire.
I am in search of email ID of authors of this tool for getting permission to use it in my study and translate it into Malayalam, an Indian language
Dear Babitha,
Professor Wijma is the developer of the W-DEQ.
His email is: [email protected] or [email protected]
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