In total 1224 women participated in the study. The measures used were State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI),Stress Coping Inventory (SCI) to assess the individual’s appraisal of her adaptive resources to deal with stressful situations, a self developed Social Contact Questionnaire for assessing the perceived support of the partner and family members, Traumatic Events Scale to measure the post-traumatic stress symptoms related to delivery before and after childbirth, Wijma’s Delivery Experience/Expectancy Questionnaire measuring the fear of childbirth, DSM 4 criteria of post-traumatic stress disorder (criteria A, B, C, D, E and F), Beck’s Depression Inventory for measuring depression (of which 7 items were removed because they corresponded to the somatic symptoms that could also be a related to changes during pregnancy), medical records for assessing the mode of delivery and a demographic data sheet to study the rest of the variables. The statistics used were Odds Ratio and chi-square
In total 1224 women participated in the study. The measures used were State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI),Stress Coping Inventory (SCI) to assess the individual’s appraisal of her adaptive resources to deal with stressful situations, a self developed Social Contact Questionnaire for assessing the perceived support of the partner and family members, Traumatic Events Scale to measure the post-traumatic stress symptoms related to delivery before and after childbirth, Wijma’s Delivery Experience/Expectancy Questionnaire measuring the fear of childbirth, DSM 4 criteria of post-traumatic stress disorder (criteria A, B, C, D, E and F), Beck’s Depression Inventory for measuring depression (of which 7 items were removed because they corresponded to the somatic symptoms that could also be a related to changes during pregnancy), medical records for assessing the mode of delivery and a demographic data sheet to study the rest of the variables. The statistics used were Odds Ratio and chi-square