ArticleBMC pregnancy and childbirth2022
The experience of giving birth: a prospective cohort in a French perinatal network.
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- Maternal satisfaction and perceived quality of care during childbirth in a tertiary care Italian Obstetrics Unit: a cross-sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Observational
- Association between induction of labor and birth experience: A national population-based study.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2026Article
- Development and validation of the birth integrity questionnaire for measuring attitudes, maternity care, and perceptions of birth.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the questionnaire for assessing the childbirth experience in a Chinese sample of postpartum women.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Consent for interventions during childbirth: A national population-based study.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2025Article
- [Violated birth integrity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: experiences of women with maternity care].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo assess women's positive and negative perceptions after giving birth. The secondary objectives were to identify the women who had a negative perception of their delivery, define the risk factors, and propose actions that maternity units can take to improve their management. METHODS/
designThis study was a multicenter, prospective cohort, conducted in 23 French maternity units constituting one perinatal network, in 2019. All adult women who understood French and gave birth between February 1 and September 27, 2019, were eligible. The exclusion criterion was the woman's objection to participation. Validated self-administered questionnaire (QACE) was sent by email 6 weeks after the child's birth. The main outcome was the experience of childbirth, assessed on a scale of 0 to 10. A good experience was defined by a score ≥ 8/10, and a poor experience by a score < 5. A multinomial logistic regression model, expressed by cumulative proportional odds ratios, were used to determine the factors that might have affected women's experiences during childbirth.
resultsTwo thousand one hundred and thirty-fifth women completed the questionnaire, for a participation rate of 49.6%. Overall, 70.7% (n = 1501/2121) of the women reported a good experience, including 38% (n = 807/2121) who graded their experience with the maximum score of 10. On the other hand, 7.3% (n = 156) of the women reported a poor experience. Vaginal delivery (aOR 3.93, 95%CI, 3.04-5.08) and satisfactory management (aOR 11.35 (7.69-16.75)) were the principal determining factors of a positive experience. Epidural analgesia increased the feeling of failure (aOR 5.64, 95%CI, 2.75-13.66). Receiving information and being asked for and agreeing to consent improved the global experience (P = 0.03).
conclusionThe Identikit picture of the woman associated with a poor experience of childbirth shows a nullipara who had a complication during her pregnancy, gave birth after induction of labor, or by cesarean or operative vaginal delivery, with the newborn transferred for pediatric care, and medical management considered unsatisfactory.
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