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n/a on 6/1/2007 4:39:08 PM |
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Childbirth Self Efficacy Inventory |
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Nancy Lowe developed a self-efficacy tool for identifying women who may need additional childbirth education as a way to improve their self-efficacy about birth. This is especially interesting to me since I believe that factual information is required but insufficient to change our birth culture.
The following citation refers to a study which showed that women who chose repeat cesarean section scored lower than those who chose VBAC.
Dilks FM, Beal. Role of self-efficacy in birth choice.
J Perinat Neonatal Nurs. 1997 Jun;11(1):1-9
I would like to know if this same tool could identify women who would prefer home, birth center, or hospital births, or women who believe in the importance of technology or physicians versus her own body.
Does anyone know of any other applications of this tool published anywhere? Or have ideas of how to go about studying this?
It would be great to be able to predict whether a mother is really truly going to be happy afterwards with a hospital or home birth. Or target women with additional resources who may then change their plans for birth environment or birth attendant.
Tienchin Ho |
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