Table 2.
Fear of childbirth and childbirth self-efficacy in adolescent and adult pregnant women referring to Urmia health centres (n=360)
| Outcome | Total | Adolescent | Adult | P value* | Correlation with fear of childbirth | |
| Mean (SD)† | Mean (SD)† | Mean (SD)† | Adolescent | Adult | ||
| r (p value‡) | r (p value‡) | |||||
| Fear of childbirth (score range: 0–165) | 110.3 (20.7) | 114.7 (14.1) | 108.1 (23.1) | 0.001 | – | – |
| Childbirth self-efficacy | ||||||
| Active phase of labour | ||||||
| Outcome expectancy (score range: 16–160) | 116.5 (15.4) | 115.1 (17.7) | 117.3 (14.1) | 0.208 | 0.56 (>0.001) | 0.57 (>0.001) |
| Self-efficacy expectancy (score range: 16–160) | 95.6 (15.5) | 93.7 (15) | 96.6 (15.7) | 0.103 | 0.56 (>0.001) | 0.73 (>0.001) |
| Total score (score range: 32–320) | 212.1 (26.7) | 208.8 (28.6) | 213.8 (25.7) | 0.094 | 0.64 (>0.001) | 0.76 (>0.001) |
| Second stage of delivery | ||||||
| Outcome expectancy (score range: 16–160) | 113.7 (15.7) | 111.8 (17.8) | 114.7 (14.5) | 0.101 | 0.57 (>0.001) | 0.67 (>0.001) |
| Self-efficacy expectancy (score range: 16–160) | 95.45 (17.1) | 91.7 (17.1) | 97.3 (16.5) | 0.003 | 0.61 (>0.001) | 0.69 (>0.001) |
| Total score (score range: 32–320) | 209.2 (28.7) | 203.5 (32.1) | 212 (26.5) | 0.008 | 0.65 (>0.001) | 0.79 (>0.001) |
*Independent t-test.
†Mean (SD).
‡Pearson’s correlation test.