Women's perceptions of childbirth and childbirth education before and after education and birth

Contemporary Women's Perceptions of Childbirth Education

“…Women reported wanting information on labor and birth (Koehn, 1992); on nursing care, breathing, medications, support, and control (Slaninka, Galbraith, Strzelecki, & Cockroft, 1996;Stamler, 1998); and on nutrition, fetal growth and development, infant care, and feeding (Beger & Beaman, 1996). Women also reported attending classes because their health-care provider invited them, because they wanted their husbands to participate, and because attending childbirth education classes was ''normal'' (Hallgren, Kihlgren, Norberg, & Forslin, 1995;Stamler, 1998).…”

Childbirth Education Outcomes: An Integrative Review of the Literature

“…The classes in the remainder of the studies were referred to as a health education program none of the studies identified any additional influencing factors on the classes or other influencing factors on the (Thassri et al, 2000), antenatal sessions (Hallgren et al, 1995;Spiby et al, 1999), and childbirth education participants. Thus, although not stated, it appeared that all of these studies were guided by the traditional strucclasses (Beger & Beaman, 1996;Jackson, 1995;Johnston-Robledo, 1998).…”

“…Beger and Beaman (1996) stated that Samples and Settings six of the seven instructors in the study were RNs and All of the studies used convenience sampling except for that four of these were LCCEs. Midwives taught the the three qualitative studies (Hallgren et al, 1995; classes in Hallgren et al's (1995) study, while Smedley Stamler, 1998Thassri et al, 2000) that used purposive (1999) stated that the instructors came from ''a range sampling, appropriate for this methodology. The number of backgrounds'' (p. 19) as health professionals.…”

“…The of subjects in these three qualitative studies ranged from remaining studies did not clearly identify the instructors. 7 (Hallgren et al, 1995) to 214 (Thassri et al, 2000).…”

“…Four of the 12 studies met the inclusion/exclusion criteria for review. (Hallgren, Kihlgre, Norberg, & Forslin, 1995;Hart, 1995;Johnston-Robledo, 1998; Spiby, HenCritique Format derson, Slade, Escott, & Fraser, 1999) investigated aspects of the birth experience: satisfaction with The critique format used Petersen and White's (1989) the birth experience, impact on pain perception, and Ganong's (1987) guidelines for reviewing literature.…”