Latent Profile Analysis of Pregnant Women's Fear of Childbirth
Objective To explore the potential categories and influencing factors of pregnant women's fear of childbirth,and to provide reference for the implementation of targeted intervention.Methods From July to September 2022,598 pregnant women who had a check-up in a tertiary A hospital in Tangshan city were selected using convenience sampling method.Child-birth attitude questionnaire,patient health questionnaire,generalized anxiety disorder and perceived social support scale were used to investigate the patients.Latent profile analysis was conducted on pregnant women's fear of childbirth,and the influen-cing factors of different categories were analyzed by Multivariate Logistic Regression.Results Pregnant women's fear of child-birth can be divided into three potential categories:low fear of childbirth-high coping ability group,medium fear of childbirth-fear of pain injury group,and high fear of childbirth-fear of pain injury group.There were statistically significant differences in education level,self-rated health status,parity,prenatal education(all P<0.05).Education level,prenatal education,parity,depression,anxiety,preferred delivery mode and pregnancy complications are the influencing factors of different types of pregnant women's fear of delivery(all P<0.05).Conclusions There are obvious classification characteristics of pregnant women's fear of childbirth,and medical staff should give psychological counseling and targeted intervention to pregnant women according to different types of influencing factors to reduce their level of fear of childbirth.
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