Waldenström Ulla
Department of Nursing, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Birth. 2003 Dec;30(4):248-54. doi: 10.1046/j.1523-536x.2003.00254.x.
Studies of women's memory of labor and birth have generally concluded that women's recall is fairly accurate, but the findings are not unanimous. The aim of this study was to compare women's experiences of labor pain and overall experience of the birth at 2 months and 1 year after the delivery.
A longitudinal cohort study of 2,428 women recruited in early pregnancy from all antenatal clinics in Sweden during 3 weeks evenly spread during 1999-2000 was conducted. In addition to a questionnaire in early pregnancy including background data, the women completed a questionnaire at 2 months and 1 year after the birth including the same 7-point rating scale of pain intensity and the same question about overall experience of labor and birth.
Forty-seven percent of the women made the same assessment of pain intensity, and 60 percent of childbirth overall, at 1 year as they did at 2 months after the birth. One year after the birth, 35 percent recalled pain as less severe, and 18 percent as more severe, and 24 percent said labor and birth overall was more negative, whereas 16 percent said it was more positive.
This study showed great variation in women's memories of labor and birth, and conclusions by some other studies, often based on analyses of group data rather than on the responses of the individual participants were, to some extent, challenged.
关于女性对分娩过程的记忆的研究普遍得出结论，女性的回忆相当准确，但研究结果并不一致。本研究的目的是比较女性在分娩后2个月和1年时对分娩疼痛的体验以及对分娩总体体验的情况。
对1999 - 2000年期间在瑞典所有产前诊所于孕早期招募的2428名女性进行了一项纵向队列研究，招募时间在3周内均匀分布。除了孕早期一份包含背景数据的问卷外，这些女性在分娩后2个月和1年时还完成了一份问卷，其中包括相同的7分疼痛强度评分量表以及关于分娩总体体验的相同问题。
47%的女性在分娩1年后对疼痛强度的评估与分娩后2个月时相同，60%的女性对分娩总体体验的评估相同。分娩1年后，35%的女性回忆疼痛减轻，18%的女性回忆疼痛加重，24%的女性表示分娩总体体验更负面，而16%的女性表示更正面。
本研究表明女性对分娩的记忆存在很大差异，其他一些研究（通常基于群体数据分析而非个体参与者的回答）得出的结论在一定程度上受到了挑战。
