- Gümüşhane Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi
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- The Relationship Between Midwifery Students’ Attitudes Towards Marriage and Birth Fears
The Relationship Between Midwifery Students’ Attitudes Towards Marriage and Birth Fears
Authors : Habibe Yaşar Yetişmiş, Tuğba Enise Benli, Yeşim Aksoy Derya
Pages : 74-81
Doi:10.37989/gumussagbil.1180626
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Publication Date : 2024-03-27
Article Type : Research
Abstract :Aim: This research was conducted to determine the relationship between midwifery students\' attitudes towards marriage and their fear of birth. Method: A cross-sectional and relation-seeking study was conducted with students from the Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, of two universities in eastern Turkey. In the study, all midwifery students studying at both universities were tried to be reached, rather than sampling. The study was completed with 372 midwifery students who participated in the study on a voluntary basis. The data of the study were collected with “Personal Information Form”, “Inonu Marriage Attitude Scale (IMAS)” and “Women Childbirth Fear – Prior to Pregnancy Scale (WCF-PPS)”. In the evaluation of the data, number, percentage distributions, mean, standard deviation, Independent t-test, One-Way Anova, Tukey and correlation tests were used in SPSS (25.0) statistical package program. Results: The mean age of the students was 20.71±1.55. 80.1% of the students have an immediate family, 54.3% live in the city center, 96.8% do not work, and 56.7% of them have income equal to their expenses. The total mean scores of the students from IMAS and WCF-PPS are respectively; 69.73±20.01 and 36.37±12.00. A statistically significant negative correlation was found between students\' attitudes towards marriage and fear of birth (p<0.001). Conclusion: In this study, it was determined that as the students\' fear of birth before pregnancy increased, their attitudes towards marriage decreased. In line with this result, it is recommended to support the thoughts of future marriage by taking into account the pre-pregnancy birth fears of the students.Keywords : Ebelik Öğrencileri, Doğum Korkusu, Evlilik Tutumu