Sadigheh Heydari; Parvin Esfandiari nezhad; Majid Barzegar; Mehrnaz Azadyekta
Abstract
Objective: Pregnancy is the biggest event in a woman's life, which is not a welcome event for all women, and in cases where it is not properly managed, it puts a lot of stress on her mother and those around her. The overall purpose of this study is to investigate Psychometric properties of fear of preterm ...
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Objective: Pregnancy is the biggest event in a woman's life, which is not a welcome event for all women, and in cases where it is not properly managed, it puts a lot of stress on her mother and those around her. The overall purpose of this study is to investigate Psychometric properties of fear of preterm delivery questionnaire and its relationship with marriage duration among couples. Methods: The present study consisted of two parts of test-descriptive-correlation and statistical sample of 150 couples referring to health center number one in Izeh city that were selected by multistage cluster sampling. Data were analyzed using SPSS-24 software. Findings: showed that the factor loadings greater than 0.3 determined that the questionnaire was saturated by two factors. These two factors are explained by about 60.314 for women and 69.937 for their husbands, and explained the percentage of variance. Correlation findings also showed that the fear of delivery with marriage duration for women and for their husbands have a reverse relationship. The inverse relationship between education and age with fear of pre-natal delivery is one of the side findings of this study. Conclusion: standardized Persian instrument "Fear of Preterm Delivery" has acceptable psychometric properties in Iranian sample. Also, There is a significant inverse relationship between the duration of marriage and fear of childbirth.
