Table 1 Scores of midwives’ attitudes and beliefs toward physiological childbirth and its domains (n = 200)
From: Iranian midwives’ attitudes and beliefs toward physiological childbirth: a cross-sectional study
Midwives’ attitudes and beliefs and its domains | Mean | SD | Minimum | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Women’s experience of birth (10-40) | 33.55 | 3.50 | 26 | 40 |
Women’s experience of birth out of 100 | 78.53 | 11.67 | 53.33 | 100 |
Women’s autonomy (12- 48) | 34.76 | 3.76 | 28 | 46 |
Women’s autonomy out of 100 | 63.23 | 10.46 | 44.44 | 94.44 |
Medical Model Conflict (10-40) | 25.31 | 3.23 | 16 | 34 |
Medical Model Conflict out of 100 | 51.5 | 10.77 | 20 | 80 |
Breech safety (3-12) | 7.99 | 1.82 | 3 | 12 |
Breech safety out of 100 | 55.52 | 20.33 | 0 | 100 |
Intervention influence (7-28) | 18.21 | 3.10 | 8 | 28 |
Intervention influence out of 100 | 53.40 | 14.78 | 4.76 | 100 |
Total attitude and belief score (42-168) | 119.90 | 9.30 | 95 | 144 |