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The relationship between expectation, experience and perception of labour pain: an observational study.
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- Emotional Touchpoints and Emotions of Childbirth: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review and Epistemic Network Analysis.Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of using a birth ball on birth satisfaction and pain in pregnant women during labor: a randomized controlled trial.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2024Trial
- Expectations predict early pregnancy-related symptom burden.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Parturients' perspectives on labor pain and epidural analgesia: A protocol for an explorative qualitative study.Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica · 2025Article
- The Chinese version of rating scale of pain expression during childbirth (ESVADOPA): reliability and validity assessment.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Childbirth Experience and Pain Control: Expectation, Satisfaction, and Analgesia Myths.Cureus · 2024Article
- The Lighter Side of Pain: Do Positive Affective States Predict Memory of Pain Induced by Running a Marathon?Journal of pain research · 2022Article
- The Effects of Pain Expectancy and Desire for Pain Relief on the Memory of Pain in Half Trail Marathon Runners.Journal of pain research · 2022Article
- Epidural analgesia and related ethical issues among pregnant women: Literature review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2021Review
- Effect of Nausea and Vomiting on Anxiety and Depression Levels in Early Pregnancy.The Eurasian journal of medicine · 2018Article
- Labour pain perception: experiences of Nigerian mothers.The Pan African medical journal · 2018Article
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The present study was aimed to assess the relationship between pain expectation before labour, labour pain and pain perception after the labour. Pregnant women were asked to rate their pain level on a standard continuous visual analogue scale at various time points. Pain expectancy (PE), labour pain (LP) and postpartum pain perception (PPP) scores were calculated. The final study group was composed of 230 pregnant women after exclusions. Mean age of pregnant women was 26.2 ± 5.79. The mean PE, LP, and PPP scores were 70.11 ± 18.82, 75.72 ± 19.2 and 65.84 ± 19.56, respectively. The difference among pain scores was statistically significant (
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