Volume 23, Issue 3
Maternal Education as a Means to Reduce Anxiety Generated by the Proximity of the Delivery Process
Abstract
Objectives: To determine the efficacy of maternal education (ME) as a tool to reduce the level of anxiety prepartum. Methods: A multicenter observational conducted in four hospitals in Spain in 2011 on primiparous. The data were collected through an interview and medical history. The analysis estimated the odds ratios both raw and adjusted. Results: 520 women were studied. The 54.53% of the women who participated in the study had a low level of anxiety moments before delivery. It was found that the performance of EM has an influence on the level of anxiety prepartum ((ORa = 0.85, 95% CI = 0.58-1.26). Conclusions: EM assistance program not tested have influence on the level of anxiety prepartum.
Keywords
maternal education, maternal education intensity, level of anxiety, childbirth