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Table 1 Socio-demographic, pregnancy, labour and birth characteristics among primiparous women (n = 800)

From: Predictors of traumatic birth experience among a group of Iranian primipara women: a cross sectional study

Age

N(%)

Husband’s age

N (%)

Economic status

N (%)

Socio-demographic

18 to 25

533 (66.3)

18 to 25

192 (24.0)

Low

171 (21.4)

26–30

179 (22.4)

26–30

352 (44.0)

Middle

542 (67.8)

31 and above

88 (11.0)

31 and above

256 (32.0)

High

87 (10.9)

Education

 

Husband’s education

 

Marriage length

 

High school and lower

355 (44.4)

High school and lower

356 (44.5)

5 year and below

723 (90.4)

Diploma

291 (36.4)

Diploma

294 (36.8)

6 year and above

77 (9.6)

University

154 (19.3)

University

150 (18.7)

  

Work status

 

Husband work

 

Source of support

 

House keeper

754 (94.3)

Unemployed

45 (5.7)

Husband

470 (58.8)

Employed

46 (5.7)

Employed

65 (8.2)

Mother or father

176 (22.0)

Self-employed

0 (0)

Self-employed

396 (49.5)

Relative

116 (14.5)

  

Manual worker

294 (36.8)

Sister or brother

24 (3.0)

    

Nobody

14 (1.8)

Insurance

470 (58.8)

Marital satisfaction

766 (95.8)

  

Pregnancy

Planned pregnancy

531 (66.4)

Prenatal class

222 (27.8)

Doing exercise during pregnancy

301 (37.6)

Abortion history

 

Pregnancy week

Duration of exercise (min)

No

681 (85.1)

37 to 39

465 (58.1)

5 to 10

52 (17.2)

1 or above

119 (14.9)

40 and 41

335 (41.9)

15 to 30

195 (64.4)

    

More than 30

56 (18.5)

Wanted pregnancy

Birth education class number (session)

Frequency of the exercise during one week

No

105 (13.1)

1 or 2

81 (38.4)

1 or 2

85 (28.1)

Only me or my husband

35 (4.4)

3 or 4

44 (20.9)

3 or 4

89 (29.4)

Me and my husband

660 (82.5)

5 or 7

27 (12.8)

5 or 6

34 (11.2)

  

8

59 (28.0)

7

95 (31.4)

Labour and childbirth

Duration of stay in the labour room (Less than 12 h)

522 (65.5)

Doula presence

208 (26.0)

Baby sex (Girl)

421 (52.6)

Permission for moving in the labour room

479 (40.1)

Use of one of the pain relief methods

333 (41.6)

Presence of support person

191 (20.3)

Free in select of childbirth position

122 (11.3)

Augmentation

537 (67.1)

Fear of childbirth

514 (64.3)

Childbirth place

 

Episiotomy

782 (97.8)

Operative vaginal delivery

2 (0.25)

Organizational

113 (14.1)

    

Public

555 (69.4)

    

Private

132 (16.5)

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