Women's preferences for caesarean or vaginal birth with a perspective of future fertility: A discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate pregnant women's preferences for risks of vaginal and caesarean birth, including possible impacts on future fertility.

Methods

In this discrete choice experiment, low-risk nulliparous pregnant women recruited after 28 weeks of gestation evaluated eight choice sets, each between two different hypothetical births scenarios which intermixed the risks of planned caesarean or vaginal birth. Scenarios consisted of six attributes: pain, maternal health, neonatal health, risk of unplanned intervention, impact on fertility and risk of complications in the next pregnancy. All scenarios contained risks to neonatal health as neither vaginal nor caesarean birth guarantee an ideal outcome. Choice data were analysed using a conditional logistic regression model.

SUBMITTER: Crispin JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11542828 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature