Table 3 Characteristics of Participants
Variables | n (%) |
|---|---|
Education Level | |
Primary Education | 11 (3.5%) |
Secondary Education | 66 (21.4%) |
Tertiary Education | 231 (75%) |
Race | |
Asian | 8 (25.9%) |
Caucasian | 212 (68%) |
Indigenous | 2 (6.4%) |
Do not wish to declare | 7 (2.2%) |
Mixed/Black | 79 (25.6%) |
Marital status | |
Cohabiting | 297 (96.4%) |
Not cohabiting | 11 (3.5%) |
Number of children | |
1 | 220 (71.4%) |
2 | 67 (21.7%) |
3 | 12 (3.8%) |
4 | 7 (2.2%) |
Local Birth | |
Hospital Birth | 285 (92.5%) |
Home Birth | 23 (7.4%) |
Financial Assistance for Childbirth | |
Public Health Service | 131 (42.5%) |
Health Insurance | 109 (6.1%) |
Private | 68 (22%) |
Childbirth attendants (multiple options were allowed) | |
Obstetrician | 241 (78.2%) |
Obstetric nurse | 193 (62.6%) |
Doula | 88 (28.6%) |
Midwife | 16 (5.2%) |
Onset of Labor | |
Spontaneous | 277 (89.9%) |
Induced | 31 (10%) |
Type of delivery | |
Spontaneous vaginal | 296 (96.1%) |
Instrumental (Forceps or Vacuum Extractor) | 12 (3.9%) |
Nonpharmacological methods | 187 (39.3%) |
Analgesia during childbirth | |
Epidural block | 31 (10.1%) |
Spinal anesthesia | 20 (6.5%) |
Block of pudendal nerve | 1 (0.3%) |
Participant did not know what to answer | 18 (5.8%) |