A comparison of the Fear of Childbirth Scale with the Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale to identify childbirth-related fear in a sample of Dutch pregnant women: a diagnostic accuracy comparative cross-sectional study

• Published in: International journal of nursing studies Vol. 109; p. 103615
• Main Authors: Kuipers, Jacoba, Henrichs, Jens, Evans, Kerry
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2020; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Accuracy; Antenatal; Anxiety; Birth; Childbirth & labor; Childbirth-related fear; Cross-sectional studies; Emotional well being; Fear & phobias; Fear of Birth Scale; Medical diagnosis; Medical screening; Midwifery; Midwives; Negative emotions; Nursing; Predictions; Pregnancy; Prenatal care; Psychological distress; Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale; Tocophobia; Womens health; Fear of Birth Scale; Childbirth-related fear; Tocophobia; Antenatal; Anxiety; Birth; Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale

Because of the considerable negative effects of women's childbirth-related anxiety, fear and worries, and the time constraints that midwives perceive to assess women's antenatal emotional wellbeing, it is important that midwives can identify women with a more severe fear of birth with an e...