Table 5 Responses on the "unaffected self-expression" factor of the CBE-Scale at baseline and 5 years postpartum
From: A longitudinal study of women’s memories of their childbirth experiences at five years postpartum
Response after childbirth | Response after 5 years | Two-sample test | Concordance rate | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | I don’t remember | ||||||
n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | |||
16. Did you release vocal outbursts during childbirth without excessively restraining them? | ||||||||
Yes | 440 | (92.2) | 33 | (6.9) | 4 | (0.8) | < 0.001 | 87.4% |
No | 28 | (62.2) | 16 | (35.6) | 1 | (2.2) | ||
17. Did you express the full range of your feelings during childbirth? | ||||||||
Yes | 433 | (90.6) | 42 | (8.8) | 3 | (0.6) | < 0.001 | 84.0% |
No | 38 | (80.9) | 8 | (17.0) | 1 | (2.1) | ||
18. Did you express yourself as you are during childbirth? | ||||||||
Yes | 444 | (90.0) | 46 | (9.3) | 4 | (0.7) | < 0.001 | 85.7% |
No | 25 | (78.1) | 7 | (21.9) | 0 | (0.0) | ||