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Research Article: Perceived Childbirth Self-Efficacy and Its Associated Factors Among Pregnant Women in South-Central Ethiopia

Date Published: 2023-09-12

Abstract:
Childbirth is a potentially threatening life event due to the possibility of pain and the risk of injury or even death for both mother and child. This stressful life event of childbirth, which has no chance of recovery put pregnant women under fear of childbirth., Confidence in labour and birth, also known as childbirth self-efficacy, has been identified as an important marker of women’s coping abilities during labour. Self-efficacy refers to an individual’s confidence or belief in his/her own abilities to meet, overcome or control tasks successfully., Perceived childbirth self-efficacy (PCBSE), according to Bandura’s self-efficacy theory, relates to women’s perceptions of their cognitive readiness to manage labor and delivery., Efficacy expectancy and outcome expectancy make up self-efficacy. The term “outcome expectancy” describes the belief that completing a job will result in a particular outcome. On the other hand, efficiency expectancy is the person’s conviction that one carries out that behavior successfully in a specific situation.

Introduction:
Childbirth is a potentially threatening life event due to the possibility of pain and the risk of injury or even death for both mother and child. This stressful life event of childbirth, which has no chance of recovery put pregnant women under fear of childbirth. , Confidence in labour and birth, also known as childbirth self-efficacy, has been identified as an important marker of women’s coping abilities during labour. Self-efficacy refers to an individual’s confidence or belief in his/her own abilities to meet,…

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