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PURPOSE: This study intends to identify the relations among labor pain and labor agentry of puerperas giving birth in midwifery clinic and perception of delivery experience, and to establish factors influencing on their perception of delivery experience. METHODS: Descriptive survey research. Data were collected from puerperas giving birth through vaginal delivery in six midwifery clinics, and they were analyzed through t-test, ANOVA, pearson's correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression. RESULTS: Figures of labor pain of puerperas giving birth in midwifery clinic by stage were 4.12, 6.80 and 8.11 in average in latent, active and transitional stage, respectively, while labor agentry and perception of delivery experience showed upper-middling figures, namely 3.70 and 3.94. It was revealed that labor agentry of puerperas giving birth in midwifery clinic had negative correlation with labor pain in latent stage (r=−0.176, p=0.021). Perception of delivery experience had the same with labor pain in latent stage (r=−0.177, p=0.020) and labor pain in active stage (r=−0.159, p=0.037), whereas perception of delivery experience had positive correlation with labor agentry (r=0.750, p < 0.001). In addition, factors influencing on perception of delivery experience of puerperas giving birth in midwifery clinic were labor agentry, educational background and marital satisfaction, accounting for 58.8%. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that developing and applying nursing intervention program that increases labor agentry so that puerperas giving birth in midwifery clinic may perceive childbirth experience positively.
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Female , Pregnancy , Labor Pain , Midwifery , Nursing , ParturitionABSTRACT
A comparative study was conducted to identify the effects of prenatal education on primiparas' self-confidence, satisfaction in maternal role performance and perception of delivery experience. Data were collected from 91 primiparas from August 1 to 30, 2001 using structured questionnaires. The subjects were selected from 2 OB & GY hospitals which operate the same prenatal education programs in M city. One group of subjects was primiparas who did receive prenatal education (n= 44) and another group of subjects was primiparas who did not receive prenatal education (n= 47). This study hypothesized that primiparas in education group would have higher self- confidence, satisfaction in maternal role performance and perception of delivery experience than those of non-education group. Descriptive statistics, X(2)-test, t-test, and correlation were used for data analyses. The results of this study were as follows: 1.Primiparas in prenatal education group would not have better perception of delivery experience than those of non-education group (t= 1.405, p = 0.163). 2.Primiparas in prenatal education group would have higher self-confidence in maternal role performance than those of non-education group (t=7.669, p= 0.000). 3.Primiparas in prenatal education group would have higher satisfaction in maternal role performance than those of non- education group (t= 4.115, p = 0.000). 4.There was significant correlations between self-confidence and satisfaction (r= 0.489, p= 0.000). Moreover, there was significant correlation between self-confidence and perception of delivery experience (r = 0.284, p = 0.006). The results of this study indicated that prenatal education needs to be developed and applied to nursing practice to increase self-confidence and satisfaction in maternal role performance. Experimental studies are needed to identify the effect of prenatal education.