A comparison of the fear of childbirth scale with the Tilburg pregnancy distress scale to identify childbirth-related fear in a sample of Dutch pregnant women : a diagnostic accuracy comparative cross-sectional study

Abstract: Background Because of the considerable negative effects of women's childbirth-related anxiety, fear and worries, and the time constraints that midwives perceive to assess women's antenatal emotional wellbeing, it is important that midwives can identify women with a more severe fear of birth with an easy to administer, validated tool. Objective To investigate the ability of the two-item Fear of Childbirth Scale (FOBS) to discriminate between pregnant women with and without birth-related fear, compared with the 16-item Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale (TPDS). Methods A diagnostic accur... Mehr ...