The purpose of this study is twofold: * to understand the etiology and the essence of fear of childbirth * to examine the implications and efficiency of several forms of psychological therapy.
Fear of childbirth (Tokophobia) is inconsistently defined in the research literature: some define it as an anxiety disorder while it is often defined as a form of phobia; some regard only the pre-pregnancy period, some regard the anxiety during pregnancy and some focus on the labor process. Despite the high prevalence (between 13%-20% of fertile women), research in this area is scarce and the current findings are incohesive due to various conceptualizations of the phenomenon and to various measurement methods.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
150
15 weekly therapy sessions.
3 months of weekly group therapy sessions.
Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic - Sourasky Medical Center
Tel Aviv, Israel
RECRUITINGTokophobia existing and new measures (e.g. Pregnancy anxiety scale, Levin, 1991; Tokophobia subjective scale)
Time frame: Pre-treatment, Mid treatment, End of treatment
For pregnant subjects - labor preference, duration and pain medication assessment.
Time frame: post-labor
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