Women's preference for caesarean section and the actual mode of delivery - Comparing five sites in Norway
Objectives The caesarean (CS) section rate varies among hospitals in Norway, and little is known about whether this is influenced by women’s preferences. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in women’s preferred mode of delivery during pregnancy between five hospitals in Norway,...
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ftntnutrondheimi:oai:ntnuopen.ntnu.no:11250/2596458 2023-05-15T18:34:29+02:00 Women's preference for caesarean section and the actual mode of delivery - Comparing five sites in Norway Lindstad Løvåsmoen, Elin Marie Bjørgo, Mari Nyland Lukasse, Mirjam Schei, Berit Henriksen, Lena 2018 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2596458 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srhc.2018.04.009 eng eng Elsevier Sexual & Reproductive HealthCare. 2018, 16 206-212. urn:issn:1877-5756 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2596458 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srhc.2018.04.009 cristin:1594191 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no CC-BY-NC-ND 206-212 16 Sexual & Reproductive HealthCare Journal article Peer reviewed 2018 ftntnutrondheimi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srhc.2018.04.009 2019-09-17T06:54:35Z Objectives The caesarean (CS) section rate varies among hospitals in Norway, and little is known about whether this is influenced by women’s preferences. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in women’s preferred mode of delivery during pregnancy between five hospitals in Norway, and to relate this to the actual mode of delivery. Study design A prospective cohort study of 2,177 unselected pregnant women in five hospitals in Norway. Women were recruited at their standard ultrasound examinations, and data was collected through questionnaires and electronic patient charts. The exposure was a CS preference and the main outcome measure was the actual mode of delivery. Results In total, 3.5% of the primiparous women and 9.6% of the multiparous women reported a preference for CS. This was associated with fear of childbirth and education between 10 and 13 years in both groups, symptoms of depression and an age over 35 years old among the primiparous women, and a previous CS and/or negative birth experience among the multiparous. The multiparous women in Drammen and Tromsø were less likely to prefer a CS, and none of the primiparous women in Tromsø preferred a CS. A total of 67.8% of those who preferred a CS gave birth with this mode of delivery. Conclusion There were significant differences between the hospitals according to the CS preference. This preference was associated with the previous obstetric history and psychological factors. Therefore, creating good birth experiences and offering women counselling may reduce the CS preference rate. acceptedVersion © 2018. This is the authors’ accepted and refereed manuscript to the article. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Article in Journal/Newspaper Tromsø NTNU Open Archive (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Norway Tromsø Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare 16 206 212 |
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Objectives The caesarean (CS) section rate varies among hospitals in Norway, and little is known about whether this is influenced by women’s preferences. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in women’s preferred mode of delivery during pregnancy between five hospitals in Norway, and to relate this to the actual mode of delivery. Study design A prospective cohort study of 2,177 unselected pregnant women in five hospitals in Norway. Women were recruited at their standard ultrasound examinations, and data was collected through questionnaires and electronic patient charts. The exposure was a CS preference and the main outcome measure was the actual mode of delivery. Results In total, 3.5% of the primiparous women and 9.6% of the multiparous women reported a preference for CS. This was associated with fear of childbirth and education between 10 and 13 years in both groups, symptoms of depression and an age over 35 years old among the primiparous women, and a previous CS and/or negative birth experience among the multiparous. The multiparous women in Drammen and Tromsø were less likely to prefer a CS, and none of the primiparous women in Tromsø preferred a CS. A total of 67.8% of those who preferred a CS gave birth with this mode of delivery. Conclusion There were significant differences between the hospitals according to the CS preference. This preference was associated with the previous obstetric history and psychological factors. Therefore, creating good birth experiences and offering women counselling may reduce the CS preference rate. acceptedVersion © 2018. This is the authors’ accepted and refereed manuscript to the article. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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Women's preference for caesarean section and the actual mode of delivery - Comparing five sites in Norway |
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