The Relationship between Fear of Childbirth and Women’s Knowledge about Painless Childbirth

Table 3

Delivery preference of participants and reasons for requesting elective caesarean section.

	Patients preferring caesarean section for their current pregnancy	Patients preferring vaginal delivery for their current pregnancy
	, %	, %
The patients with FOC in group 1 ()	, 11.5	, 88.4
The patients with FOC in group 2 ()	70, 92	6, 7.8
The patients without FOC in group 1 ()	, 12	, 87.9
The patients without FOC in group 2 ()	100, 33.3	200, 66.6
Causes for preferring caesarean section ()	(i) Fear of pain caused by uterine contractions ( = 155, 66.5%)
	(ii) Control request delivery time (, 21.4%)
	(iii) Fear of perineal tear (, 8.1%)
	(iv) Request of tubal ligation (, 3.8%)

Group 1: participants with knowledge about painless childbirth, group 2: participants who do not have knowledge about painless childbirth. , compared to the patients with FOC in group 2; , compared to the patients without FOC in group 2.