Green J M, Coupland V A, Kitzinger J V
Birth. 1990 Mar;17(1):15-24. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-536x.1990.tb00004.x.
A prospective study of 825 women booked for delivery in six hospitals in southeastern England was conducted to determine their expectations of childbirth. Women completed three questionnaires, two before the birth and one six weeks after. Questions covered both objective and subjective aspects of birth, and gave particular attention to control, its importance and its relevance to psychological outcomes. Four different indices of psychological outcome were considered: fulfillment, satisfaction, emotional well-being, and the words that women used to describe their babies, which were shown to be related to different patterns of independent variables and of intrapartum events. Our results did not support popular stereotypes: high expectations were not found to be bad for women, although low expectations often were. Information and feeling in control were consistently associated with positive psychological outcomes.
对在英格兰东南部六家医院预约分娩的825名女性进行了一项前瞻性研究，以确定她们对分娩的期望。女性填写了三份问卷，两份在分娩前，一份在产后六周。问题涵盖了分娩的客观和主观方面，并特别关注控制权、其重要性及其与心理结果的相关性。考虑了四种不同的心理结果指标：成就感、满意度、情绪幸福感，以及女性用来描述自己宝宝的词汇，结果表明这些指标与不同模式的自变量和分娩期事件相关。我们的研究结果并不支持普遍的刻板印象：高期望并未被发现对女性不利，尽管低期望往往如此。信息和掌控感始终与积极的心理结果相关。
