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The DVD/video format offers an educational program that is convenient, consistent, and interactive for the viewer. Faculty members are essential and instrumental in creating storyboards from a script, which is an initial step in the production of DVD/videos. The authors discuss how faculty can participate in the process of developing an educational DVD/video program.

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Objective: To explore the prevalence of birth satisfaction for childbearing women planning to birth in their home or birth centers in the United States. Examining differences in birth satisfaction of the home and birth centers; and those who birthed in a hospital using the 30-item Birth Satisfaction Scale (BSS) and the 10-item Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R).Study design: A quantitative survey using the BSS and BSS-R were employed.Additional demographic data were collected using electronic linkages (Qualtrics TM ).Participants: A convenience sample of childbearing women (n=2229) who had planned to birth in their home or birth center from the US (United States) participated.Participants were recruited via professional and personal contacts, primarily their midwives. Results:The total 30-item BSS score mean was 128.98 (SD 16.92) and the 10-item BSS-R mean score was 31.94(SD 6.75). Sub-scale mean scores quantified the quality of care provision, women's personal attributes, and stress experienced during labor. Satisfaction was higher for women with vaginal births compared with caesareans deliveries. In addition, satisfaction was higher for women who had both planned to deliver in a home or a birth center, and who had actually delivered in a home or a birth center.Key conclusions: Total and subscale birth satisfaction scores were positive and high for the overall sample Implications for practice: The BSS and the BSS-R provide a robust tool to quantify women's experiences of childbirth between variables such as birth types, birth settings and providers.

Objective: The aims of this study were to continue the scale development process of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) by refining the scale to make it culturally relevant for US participants, examining the factor structure of the BSS-R, and describing the level of birth satisfaction in a sample of US mothers. Background: The Birth Satisfaction Scale (BSS) was developed in the UK to assess satisfaction of the childbearing women's experiences of labor and its outcomes. One of the goals of the development of the BSS was to make comparisons across cultures. Methods: One-hundred and eighty-one first time US mothers participated in this study.Confirmatory factor analysis was used to examine a 1-factor higher-order model containing 3 lower-order factors. The higher-order factor was hypothesized to be Experience of childbearing; the lower-order factors were hypothesized as Stress, Quality of Care, and Women's attributes.