The effect of religious‑spiritual support on childbirth self‑efficacy

Childbirth self‑efficacy is one of the most important factors causing a shift in mothers do vaginal delivery. If the mother feels that she can cope well with stress, will be protected from the harmful effects of stress on your health. Self‑efficacy contained individual’s assessment of her ability to deal with stressful situations. Strengthen the spiritual beliefs of the patient causes her to be a good result every situation even incurable condition. This study aimed to determine the effect of religious‑spiritual support on childbirth self‑efficacy in primiparous women.

This is a quasi‑experimental study carried on seventy primiparous women; participants were randomly divided into two intervention and control groups. The intervention group received the e‑learning package based on religious‑spiritual content. Self‑efficacy questionnaire by both groups before and 4 weeks after it was completed. Collected data were entered into SPSS version 11 descriptive statistics, independent t‑test, and paired t‑test which were used for analysis of data. The significant level was considered <0.05.

The results showed that the mean self‑efficacy score before and after intervention in case group was 105.2 (27.01) and 110.12 (21.2), respectively, and in control group; 111.2 (23.12) and 116.9 (24.43). Paired t‑test in two groups was significant (P = 0.042, P = 0.045) but independent t‑test showed no significant difference in scores of childbirth self‑efficacy before and after intervention in two groups (P = 0.061).

In prenatal periods, religious‑spiritual support through electronic package method can increase childbirth self‑efficacy, so the planning and establishment of this training are recommended as an effective training.