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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Personality-Related Characteristics, Cultural Beliefs, and Labor Pain Perception After the 2023 Türkiye Earthquakes: A Prospective Study in Hatay.

Esra Akın, Gülay Rathfisch, Meserret Aslan

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Esra AkınDepartment of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul Atlas University, Istanbul 34408, Türkiye.
Gülay RathfischDepartment of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul Atlas University, Istanbul 34408, Türkiye.
Meserret AslanDepartment of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul Atlas University, Istanbul 34408, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0001-5149-9137

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objectivesLabor pain is a multidimensional experience associated with physiological, cultural, psychological, and contextual factors. This study aimed to examine the association of personality-related characteristics, cultural beliefs, obstetric characteristics, and proxy indicators of post-disaster context with labor pain perception among women giving birth in Hatay after the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes.

methodsThis prospective observational study was conducted with 314 women admitted to Hatay Training and Research Hospital between February and June 2025. Participants were between 38 and 42 gestational weeks, had a singleton healthy fetus, were admitted in active labor, and were expected to give birth vaginally. Data were collected using a researcher-developed questionnaire, the Ten-Item Personality Inventory, and the Visual Analog Scale. Labor pain was assessed at 6 cm, 8 cm, and full cervical dilatation (10 cm).

resultsVAS scores increased significantly across cervical dilatation points, from 5.04 ± 0.81 at 6 cm to 7.01 ± 0.82 at 8 cm and 8.06 ± 0.93 at full cervical dilatation (10 cm). Repeated-measures ANOVA showed a significant within-person increase in pain intensity across the three assessment points, F(2, 626) = 996.444,

conclusionsLabor pain perception was associated with selected sociodemographic, obstetric, and cultural characteristics. The findings support the importance of individualized, culturally sensitive, and trauma-informed midwifery care in disaster-affected regions. Personality-related findings should be interpreted cautiously because the corrected reliability analysis showed low internal consistency for Agreeableness, Emotional Stability, and Openness to Experience, although Extraversion showed high internal consistency and Conscientiousness showed relatively better but still limited internal consistency. Disaster-related findings should also be interpreted cautiously because post-disaster context was assessed using only limited proxy indicators; current place of residence was independently associated with VAS scores in the adjusted model, whereas earthquake experience was not. Because of the observational design, causal interpretations cannot be made.

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childbirthcultural beliefsdisasterearthquakelabor painmidwifery carepersonality-related characteristics

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