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Labour versus fear and anxiety
KOSTKOVÁ, Tereza
This bachelor´s thesis is focused on women´s experience of fear and anxiety during the childbirth. It combines both theoretical and empirical aspects of the topic. The theoretical part summarizes history of midwifery and history of psychoprophylaxis, defines the childbirth, describes physical and mental condition and changes in women during various stages of labour. The following chapter provides general characteristics of fear and anxiety, their signs and consequencies. The next part contains description of reasons, potential manifestations and effects of experiencing fear and anxiety during pregnancy and their possible impact on the childbirth. It is followed by a chapter dealing with prevention of, and solutions to fear and anxiety during the childbirth. The theoretical part also deals with various personalities of women in labour and opportunities to choose between different types of childbirth. The final chapter of the theoretical part summarizes specifics of midwife tasks in the delivery room. The research part of the bachelor´s thesis concentrates on finding out what is the extent of women´s experience of fear and anxiety in labour and what reasons they indicate as reasons of their fear and anxiety. We tried to establish whether there are any dependencies in experiencing the fear and anxiety by women in labour and whether it is possible to assess in advance which women will experience more fear and anxiety in labour. We attempted to identify what can help women in labour to overcome or be relieved of their feeling of fear and anxiety, and thus, whether or not such feeling can be prevented or at least alleviated. We were also detecting how the women in labour get their information of pregnancy and which information they consider the most beneficial. And whether or not their partners´ presence in labour may effect their actual experience.

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