Relationship between Religious Coping, Pain Severity, and Childbirth Self-Efficacy in Iranian Primipara Women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the important goals of midwifery support and care is to control labor pain and increase the ability to cope with pain. The use of religious coping may be effective in counteracting the stressors of labor, especially labor pain, as well as increasing the self-efficacy of labor. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between religious coping, pain severity, and childbirth self-efficacy in Iranian primipara women.

Materials and methods

This cross-sectional study was performed on 200 Iranian primiparous women referred to eight health centers in the capital of Hormozgan Province who were intending to have a normal vaginal delivery (NVD) in the Persian Gulf and Sharifi Hospitals. The sampling was multistage. Data were collected by demographic and

SUBMITTER: Sotudeh T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8863460 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature