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Table 1 Participants’ demographic and obstetric characteristics (N = 662)

From: Predictors of fear of childbirth and normal vaginal birth among Iranian postpartum women: a cross-sectional study

Demographic/obstetric Variables

Mean ± SD

N (%)

Age (years)

28.1 ± 6.2

 

Educational level (years)

11.0 ± 3.6

 

Gestational age at birth (week)

39.32 ± 1.2

 

Birth weight (gr) Mean ± SD

3163.7 ± 487.4

 

Job

 Housewife

 

603 (91.1)

 Employed

 

59 (8.9)

Satisfaction with household income

 Low satisfied

 

239 (36.1)

 Moderately satisfied/satisfied

 

423 (63.9)

Parity

 Primipara

 

283 (42.7)

 Multipara

 

379 (57.3)

Mode of birth

 Emergency cesarean

 

144 (21.8)

 Vaginal birth

 

518 (78.2)