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Table 1 Demographic Characteristics of Respondents (N = 34)

From: Perceived strategies to reduce traumatic childbirth amongst Iranian childbearing women: a qualitative study

Variable

Mothers (N = 24)

Husbands (N = 2)

Experts (N = 8)

1 male, 7 females

Age range (Mean)

18–40 (27.2)

32 and 47 (39.5)

38–60 (51.7)

Education status

 Primary education

5

  

 High school graduate

9

  

 Bachelor degree

6

1

1

 Master degree

3

 

1

 Doctorate degree

1

1

6

Employment status

 None

13

  

 Full time

9

2

8

 Part time

2

  

Type of delivery

 Vaginal

8

 

 Cesarean

16

 

Birth attendant

 Midwife

5

 

 Obstetrician

19

 

Type of hospital

 Private

7

 

 Public

17

 

Pariety

 Nullipara

11

 

 Multipara

13