title: [Effects of a one session spouse-support enhancement childbirth education on childbirth self-efficacy and perception of childbirth experience in women and their husbands].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of a one-session spouse-support enhancement childbirth education on childbirth self-efficacy and perception of childbirth experience.
  
  
  METHODS
  The design of this study was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest experiment. The participants in the study were 31 couples in the experimental group and 30 in the control group. The experimental couples were provided with one session on spouse-support enhancement childbirth education the night before delivery. Data were collected at two hours after delivery using the Childbirth Self-Efficacy Inventory (CBSEI) and perception of childbirth experience scale. Data were analyzed using PASW statistics 18 program. Frequencies, percentage, mean, χ² test, t-test were used for data analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Childbirth self-efficacy significantly increased in the experimental group as compared to the control group, but there was no significant difference in perception of childbirth experience in the experimental group compared to the control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results suggest that a one-session childbirth education has beneficial effects on enhancing childbirth self-efficacy in pregnant couples. A one-session spouse-support enhancement childbirth education is recommended as an effective nursing intervention to promote couple's childbirth self-efficacy and it is also recommended that modifications of program to promote women's childbirth experience should be considered.
authors.affiliation: Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: So Ye
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Eom
authors.forename: Eun Sil
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hyun Jung
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yang Ok
authors.initials: YO
authors.lastname: Bang
authors.forename: Nami
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chun
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D036801:Parturition / Q000523:psychology; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D037841:Pregnant People / Q000523:psychology*; D020377:Self Efficacy; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology*