How Social Context Impacts on Women's Fears of Childbirth : A Western Australian Example  

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Fisher, Colleen ; Hauck, Yvonne ; Fenwick, Jenny

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 63 no. 1 (Jul. 2006), page 64-75.
Topik: CHILDBIRTH; australia; childbirth; women's fear; medicalisation

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.5 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper addresses the limited sociological understanding of the phenomena of childbirth fear using data from a qualitative research project conducted in western australia. This qualitaitve study used an ecploratory descriptive design with 22 women identified as being fearful of birth participating in an in depth interview. Data analysis using the method of constant comparison revealed that social context, explored within the framework of the medicalisation of childbirth, and the intervening circunstmances in which the women gave birth, impacted on how and why they experienced fear. As such this paper argues that fear of childbirth has social as well as personal dimensions and is both a prospective and retrospective phenomena. The analysis identified prospective fear as both social and personal. The social dimensions were labelled as fear of the unknown, horror stories and general fear for the well beong of the baby. Personal dimensions included the fear of pain, losing control and disempowerment and uniqueness of each birth. Retrospective fear was exclusively personal and was that mediated against childbirth fear, posityive relationships formed with midwives, and the support women received from their informal network. Understanding and unpacking the dimensions of women's childbirth fear and understanding the nature of relationship that mediate women's fear, provides healthc are professionals with informatio on which to base potential intervention strategies and support women in ways that lessen rather than heighten their fear.

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