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Eom, Kim, Kim, Bang, and Chun: Effects of a One Session Spouse-Support Enhancement Childbirth Education on Childbirth Self-Efficacy and Perception of Childbirth Experience in Women and their Husbands
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Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing

Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2012; 42(4): 599-607.

Published online: 31 August 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2012.42.4.599

Effects of a One Session Spouse-Support Enhancement Childbirth Education on Childbirth Self-Efficacy and Perception of Childbirth Experience in Women and their Husbands

So Ye Eom1, Eun Sil Kim1, Hyun Jung Kim1, Yang Ok Bang1, Nami Chun2

1Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.

2College of Nursing, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, Korea.

Address reprint requests to: Chun, Nami. College of Nursing, Sungshin Women's University, Kangbuk-gu, Dobong-ro 76ga-gil, Seoul 142-732, Korea. Tel: +82-10-5112-0724, Fax: +82-2-920-2092, nmchun@sungshin.ac.kr

Received 25 July 2011       Accepted 30 July 2012

© 2012 Korean Society of Nursing Science

Abstract

Purpose

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of a one-session spouse-support enhancement childbirth education on childbirth self-efficacy and perception of childbirth experience.

Methods

The design of this study was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest experiment. The participants in the study were 31 couples in the experimental group and 30 in the control group. The experimental couples were provided with one session on spouse-support enhancement childbirth education the night before delivery. Data were collected at two hours after delivery using the Childbirth Self-Efficacy Inventory (CBSEI) and perception of childbirth experience scale. Data were analyzed using PASW statistics 18 program. Frequencies, percentage, mean, χ2 test, t-test were used for data analysis.

Results

Childbirth self-efficacy significantly increased in the experimental group as compared to the control group, but there was no significant difference in perception of childbirth experience in the experimental group compared to the control group.

Conclusion

The results suggest that a one-session childbirth education has beneficial effects on enhancing childbirth self-efficacy in pregnant couples. A one-session spouse-support enhancement childbirth education is recommended as an effective nursing intervention to promote couple's childbirth self-efficacy and it is also recommended that modifications of program to promote women's childbirth experience should be considered.

Keywords: Self-efficacy, Childbirth, Spouse

Figures and Tables

Table 1
Outline of One-session Spouse-leading Childbirth Education
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Table 2
Homogeneity of Characteristics between Experimental and Control Groups (N=61)
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Exp.=Experimental group; Cont.=Control group; IVP=Intravenous pitocin; PROM=Premature rupture of membrane; SGA=Small for gestational age; LGA=Large for gestational age.

aFisher's exact test.

Table 3
Differences in Pre-post Childbirth Self-efficacy between Experimental and Control Groups (N=61)
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Exp.=Experimental group; Cont.=Control group.

Table 4
Difference in Perception of Childbirth Experience between Experimental and Control Groups (N=61)
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Exp.=Experimental group; Cont.=Control group.

Notes

This study was conducted as a clinical nursing research study at Samsung Medical Center.

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