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ArticleJournal of education and health promotion2017

The effect of individual counseling program by a midwife on fear of childbirth in primiparous women.

Nafise Andaroon, Masoumeh Kordi, Seyed Ali Kimiaei, Habibollah Esmaeily

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Article in Journal of education and health promotion, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nafise AndaroonDepartment of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Student Research Committee, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Masoumeh KordiDepartment of Midwifery, Evidence-Based Care Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Seyed Ali KimiaeiDepartment of Education, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi of University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Habibollah EsmaeilyHealth Sciences Research Center, Departement of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences · IRFerdowsi University of Mashhad · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionFear of childbirth is a common problem in pregnant women, which in many cases leads to maternal requested cesarean. A midwife, as a responsible person, plays an important role in providing advice and giving care to mothers during pregnancy, delivery, and the postpartum period. The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of individual counseling program by a midwife on fear of childbirth in primiparous women. MATERIALS AND

methodsThis clinical trial was conducted in 2015-16, on ninety primiparous women with gestational ages of 28-30 weeks, who presented themselves at health-care centers in Mashhad. The individuals were randomly divided into two groups: intervention and control. The intervention group received the counseling program individually during three sessions, and the routine care was given to the control group. Data collection tools the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire. The data were collected at recruitment during 34-36 weeks of pregnancy and were analyzed using SPSS 16 software and the statistical tests: Chi-square and

resultsDuring weeks 34-36 of pregnancy, the mean scores for fear of childbirth in the intervention group and control group were 39.733 ± 17.085 and 65.666 ± 15.019, respectively, and there was a significant difference between the two groups (

conclusionThe individual counseling program provided by the midwife to the primiparous women during pregnancy resulted in reduced fear of childbirth.

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Fear of childbirthindividual counselingprimiparous women

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PMID29296598
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