Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
1.ULUSLARARASI 1.ULUSAL SİVAS EBELİK KONGRESİ, Sivas, Türkiye, 9 - 10 Mayıs 2022, ss.317-318
Pregnancy is a period characterized by many physiological and psychological changes. These
changes may cause a widespread fear of childbirth that starts in the prenatal period and
continues through the birth and postpartum period. Fear of childbirth occurs at different levels,
mild, moderate and severe, affecting the mother, fetus and newborn. Fear, which is at a level
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that does not affect labor negatively, has a positive effect on the initiation and continuation of
labor. However, if the feeling of fear increases, it can have an adverse effect, disrupting the
natural balance of the birth process and causing negative effects. The factors that trigger the
feeling of fear may differ from person to person. In the literature, it has been determined that
women who are dissatisfied with social support, lack of spousal support, and dissatisfied with
spousal support have higher fears of childbirth than women with a high perception of support.
Because social support; It is all kinds of help that the people around the individual need from
the beginning to the end of life. Women need social support the most during pregnancy and
childbirth, and social support is of great importance in coping with the difficult and distressing
moments they experience. There is an inverse relationship between fear of childbirth and social
support. It was observed that as social support increased, fear and stress decreased
simultaneously. While social support facilitates the adaption of pregnant women to the role of
motherhood, the inadequacy of social support makes the prenatal and postpartum periods more
difficult. Therefore, midwives/nurses have a great role and responsibility in defining this fear,
which affects women’s lives in many ways, and determining the factors affecting it. The purpose
of this review is to compile the literature on the importance of social support in fear of
childbirth.