PERCIVED CHILD BIRTH SELF-EFFICACY AND ITS ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN ATTENDING ANTINATAL CARE AT GURAGE ZONE PUBLIC HOSPITALS, SNNP, ETHIOPIA,

Abstract

Background: - Self- efficacy is an individual’s belief in his or her own abilities to meet, overcome or control tasks successfully. Child birth Self-efficacy has been identified as an important marker of women’s coping abilities during labor. Globally, the prevalence of fear associated with childbirth is often reported to be range from 7.5 to 27% during pregnancy. Objective:- To assess perceived child birth self-efficacy and associated factors among pregnant women attending ANC at Gurage zone public hospital, south, Ethiopia, 2022 GC. Method and materials:- Institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted from May 01- June 10 at Gurage zone public hospitals.. Data was collected by structured interviewer administer questionnaire from 423 participants by convenience sampling technique. Data was entered by using SPSS version 22and analyzed by binary logistic regression method and multi- variant logistic regression analysis was used to determine association between independent and outcome variable the statistical significance was determined by a p –value of less than 0.05. Result: The prevalence of child birth self-efficacy of pregnant women in this study was 54.8%with mean score of 485.31 (SD 61.198). pregnant women with occupational status of employed had 3.8times more likely to have high child birth self-efficacy with AOR 3.82 (1.95- 7.47) as compared to women who are house wife. Participants, who had good social support from were 2.00 times more likely to have high self-efficacy than women with poor social support with AOR 2.0(1.20-3.23). Pregnant women who had not depression were 4.2 times more likely to have high child birth self-efficacy than who had depression with AOR 4.2(2.54-7.03). Conclusion and Recommendation: Generally perceived child birth self-efficacy was good. Depression, occupational, status, social support and parity were associated with child birth self- efficacy and to consider integration of psycho-social and emotional support have great important on child birth self-eff