Schmitt Nadine, Lamprecht Juliane, Striebich Sabine, Meyer Gabriele
Medical Faculty, Institute for Health and Nursing Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Magdeburger Straße 8, 06112, Halle (Saale), Germany.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2025 May 10;25(1):561. doi: 10.1186/s12884-025-07685-y.
There is little research on the well-being of the persons giving support during childbirth and how they feel when doing this. The aim of this study is to validate a questionnaire that assesses the well-being of those support persons during childbirth. This publication focuses on the validation of the questionnaire; the development is described in more detail in a previous publication.
After the questionnaire had been developed, it was sent online to a sample for validation. Subsequently, the internal consistency was determined to assess the reliability and the correlation with an external criterion in order to assess the criterion validity. Known-groups validation was used to assess the construct validity of the questionnaire. Linear regressions were carried out to analyse which variables influence well-being.
The results show good reliability and high criterion validity. The known-groups analyses identified group differences between the different birth modes regarding the different domains of well-being of the support persons. Factors influencing well-being are whether it is a first time or repeated support, whether the birthing woman is a primiparous or multiparous woman and whether the birth is vaginal or operative.
Our results suggest that this questionnaire adequately captures important aspects of the well-being of support persons during childbirth. The questionnaire is designed for all birth experiences. In the case of negative experience it can be used to assess additional support and counselling and thus potentially promote the mental health of the support persons preventively.
关于分娩过程中提供支持的人员的幸福感以及他们在提供支持时的感受，相关研究较少。本研究的目的是验证一份评估这些支持人员在分娩期间幸福感的问卷。本出版物重点关注问卷的验证；其开发过程在之前的一份出版物中有更详细的描述。
问卷编制完成后，通过网络发送给一个样本进行验证。随后，确定内部一致性以评估可靠性，并与外部标准进行相关性分析以评估效标效度。采用已知群体验证来评估问卷的结构效度。进行线性回归分析哪些变量会影响幸福感。
结果显示出良好的可靠性和较高的效标效度。已知群体分析确定了不同分娩方式在支持人员幸福感不同领域方面的群体差异。影响幸福感的因素包括是首次还是重复提供支持、分娩女性是初产妇还是经产妇以及分娩是顺产还是手术产。
我们的结果表明，这份问卷充分涵盖了分娩期间支持人员幸福感的重要方面。该问卷适用于所有分娩经历。在出现负面经历的情况下，它可用于评估额外的支持和咨询，从而有可能预防性地促进支持人员的心理健康。
