A Negative Birth Experience: Prevalence and Risk Factors in a National Sample
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Background A woman's dissatisfaction with the experience of labor and birth may affect her emotional well-being and willingness to have another baby. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and risk factors of a negative birth experience in a national sample. Methods A longitudinal cohort study of 2541 women recruited from all antenatal clinics in Sweden during 3 weeks spread over 1 year was conducted. Data were collected by three questionnaires, which measured women's global experience of labor and birth 1 year after the birth, and obtained information on possible risk factors during pregnancy and 2 months after the birth. Results Seven percent of the women had a negative birth experience. The following risk factors were found: (1) factors related to unexpected medical problems, such as emergency operative delivery, induction, augmentation of labor, and infant transfer to neonatal care; (2) factors related to the woman's social life, such as unwanted pregnancy and lack of support from partner; (3) factors related to the woman's feelings during labor, such as pain and lack of control; and (4) factors that may be easier to influence by the caregivers, such as insufficient time allocated to the woman's own questions at antenatal checkups, lack of support during labor, and administration of obstetric analgesia. Conclusions Many risk factors were related to unexpected medical problems and participants' social background. Of the established methods to improve women…
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Age is associated with greater satisfaction in young women compared to older women during childbirth.
“Age is associated with greater satisfaction in young women compared to older women during childbirth, which is consistent with previous Canadian results, 34 but con fl icting results have been reported in the past. 8,32,33”
From Comprehensive maternity support and shared care in Switzerland: Comparison of levels of satisfaction (2018) · cites this paper as [32]
Spontaneous childbirth, compared to childbirth involving instrumentation or Caesarean section, is positively associated with satisfaction.
“Spontaneous childbirth, compared to childbirth involving instrumentation or Caesarean section, is positively associated with satisfaction, which is consistent with previous reports. 32,34”
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Other variables, such as analgesic use, induction, perineal injuries and neonatal variables, were not identified as being associated with satisfaction.
“Other variables, such as analgesic use, induction, perineal injuries and neonatal variables, were not identi fi ed as being associated with satisfaction, contrary to previously published results. 32”
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Women's and men's negative experience of child birth-A cross-sectional survey.
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Self-citationChildbirth experience questionnaire: validating its use in the United Kingdom
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“These were the same comparative groups used to establish construct validity of the CEQ in Swedish women [1] and previous research has indicated that oxytocin augmentation [10], a long duration of labour [11,12] and operative birth have a negative impact on birth experience [10].”
ResultSafety and Community: The Maternity Care Needs of Rural Parturient Women
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Antenatal education and the birthing experience of Brazilian women: a qualitative study
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Factors Associated With a Positive Birth Experience: An Exploration of Swedish Women’s Experiences
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“The support of a midwife and the father during labor has been shown to have a significant and positive impact on a laboring woman’s experience (Hodnett, 2002; Waldenström et al., 2004; Waldenström, Rudman, & Hildingsson, 2006).”
BackgroundThe predictive role of support in the birth experience: A longitudinal cohort study.
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The childbirth experience: obstetric and psychological predictors in Italian primiparous women
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“Although, studies showed that high levels of labour pain related negatively to sense of control (Green and Baston, 2003) and influenced the experience of birth (Waldenström et al., 2004; Christiaens and Bracke, 2007; Rijnders et al., 2008), others found that high levels of pain does not necessarily bring about dissati…”
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“or episiotomy during labour [21, 22] and routine use of oxytocin or episiotomy without permission of the woman is considered obstetric violence [23, 24].”
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A survey on worries of pregnant women - testing the German version of the Cambridge Worry Scale
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- Authors
- Waldenström, U., Hildingsson, I., Rubertsson, C., & Rådestad, I.
- Affiliations
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Mälardalen University (SE)
- Venue
- Birth
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2004-03
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 17-27
- ISSN
- 0730-7659 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-536X
- OpenAlex
- W2065036734
- Cited by
- 657
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 54 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 50 · 2019: 36 · 2018: 44 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 32 · 2015: 30 · 2014: 24 · 2013: 35 · 2012: 23
- FWCI
- 18.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Birth (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Obstetrics and Gynecology › Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
- Keywords
- negative birth experience, childbirth satisfaction, risk factors, labor induction, labor augmentation, neonatal transport, unwanted pregnancy, partner support, labor pain, prenatal care, obstetric analgesia, childbirth education, maternal emotional well-being
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Female, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Labor, Obstetric, Longitudinal Studies, Maternal Health Services, Maternal Welfare, Mothers, Pain, Personal Satisfaction, Pregnancy, Surveys and Questionnaires, Regression Analysis, Risk Factors, Sweden, Time Factors, Cohort Studies, Prevalence, Delivery, Obstetric
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