Table 1.

Individual item distributional characteristics of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised Indicator (BSS-RI) from split-half data set for exploratory factor analysis (N = 2096)

BSS-RI item	BSS-RI Item content	Domain	Mean	SD	Skew	Kurtosis
BSS-RI 1	I was not distressed at all during laboura	Stress	1.00	0.77	−0.01	−1.31
BSS-RI 2	I felt very anxious during my labour and birthb	Attributes	1.11	0.77	−0.20	−1.31
BSS-RI 3	I felt well supported by staff during my labour and birtha	Quality	1.74	0.52	−1.91	2.77
BSS-RI 4	I found giving birth a distressing experiencea	Stress	1.32	0.76	−0.62	−1.03
BSS-RI 5	I felt out of control during my birth experienceb	Attributes	1.35	0.75	−0.66	−0.95
BSS-RI 6	The staff communicated well with me during labourb	Quality	1.75	0.52	−1.95	2.94

Item scoring: ^aitems ‘agree’ = 2, ‘agree to some degree’ = 1, ‘disagree’ = 0; ^bitems ‘agree’ = 0, ‘agree to some degree’ = 1, ‘disagree’ = 2