Predicting pregnant women's intentions toward normal vaginal delivery based on the expanded Theory of Planned Behavior.

IF 0.9 4区医学 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Health Care for Women International Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-28 DOI:10.1080/07399332.2023.2192189

Sedigheh Hantoushzadeh, Razieh Akbari, Fatemeh Sabzevari, Zahra Panahi, Habibeh Bashirnezhad Dastjerdi

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Abstract

Cesarean delivery continues to increase due to various reasons, considering its negative effects, our aim in this research is to investigate the behavioral intention of pregnant women who choose vaginal delivery. In this regard, the expanded Theory of Planned Behavior was used by increasing two predictor variables. About 188 pregnant women voluntarily participated in this research in some healthcare centers in Tehran County, Iran. Our results showed that this enhanced model can increase the power of the original theory. Overall, the expanded model successfully described the mode of delivery among Iranian women and explained 59.4% of the variation in the intention variable with a stronger effect. The effect of the variables added to the model was indirectly significant. Among all the variables, attitude showed the best effect on the choice of normal vaginal delivery, and after that, the variable of general health orientation had a greater effect on attitude.

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基于扩展的计划行为理论预测孕妇的正常阴道分娩意向。

由于各种原因，剖宫产率持续上升，考虑到其负面影响，本研究旨在调查选择阴道分娩的孕妇的行为意向。为此，我们采用了扩展的计划行为理论，增加了两个预测变量。在伊朗德黑兰县的一些医疗中心，约有 188 名孕妇自愿参与了这项研究。我们的研究结果表明，这一增强模型能够提高原始理论的威力。总体而言，扩展模型成功地描述了伊朗妇女的分娩方式，并解释了意向变量中 59.4% 的变化，而且效果更强。模型中添加的变量效果间接显著。在所有变量中，态度对选择正常阴道分娩的影响最大，其次是一般健康取向变量对态度的影响更大。

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