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Measuring Women’s Satisfaction with Childbirth: A Literature Review of Measurement Properties

Kateřina Ratislavová
Kateřina Ratislavová
, 
Jana Horová
Jana Horová
 and 
Patrice Marek
Patrice Marek
   | Mar 20, 2024
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Article Category: Systematic review
Published Online: Mar 20, 2024
Page range: 100 - 108
Received: Sep 15, 2023
Accepted: Jan 07, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2024-0014
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Figure 1.

PRISMA flow diagram.
PRISMA flow diagram.

Dimensions of measurement instruments of women’s satisfaction with childbirth.

Dimensions BSS-R CEQ CEQ2 WOMBLSQ QACE IWCBEQ
Professional support and care ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Partner support ✓ ✓
Self-assessment ✓ ✓ ✓
Personal attributes ✓
Baby, bonding ✓ ✓
Preparation, ✓ ✓
expectations ✓
Pain ✓ ✓ ✓
Feeling safe ✓ ✓
Fear, anxiety, distress ✓
Positive feelings, emotional well-being ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Sense of control, participation ✓
Environment ✓
Overall satisfaction with the childbirth

Characteristics of included instruments.

Instrument/abbreviation/origin Authors Country Number of respondents Number of domains/items
Iranian women childbirth experience questionnaire IWCBEQ original Hosseini Tabaghdehi et al., 2020 (7) Iran 781

7 domains

52 items

Women’s Views of Birth Labor Satisfaction

Questionnaire

Original WOMBLSQ,

Smith, 2001 (8)

 Pozo-Cano et al., 2020 (9) Spain 385

9 domains

32 items

Questionnaire for Assessing Childbirth Experience

Original QACE,

Carquillat et al., 2017 (10)

 Rodríguez Coll et al., 2021 (11) Spain 268

4 domains

23 items

Childbirth Experience Questionnaire

Original CEQ,

Dencker, 2010 (12)

 Abbaspoor et al., 2019 (13) Iran 203

4 domains

21 items
Mamuk et al., 2019 (14) Turkey 250

4 domains

22 items
Kazemi et al., 2020 (15) Iran 250

4 domains

22 items
Patabendige et al., 2020 (16) Sri Lanka 309

4 domains

22 items
da Silva Vieira et al., 2020 (17) Brazil 308

4 domains

22 items
Boie et al., 2020 (18) Denmark 377

3 domains

22 items
Parchaa et al., 2021 (19) Mongolia 761

4 domains

20 items
Kalok et al., 2022 (20) Malaysia 246

4 domains

21 items
Marques et al., 2022 (21) Portugal 161

4 domains

20 items
Zhu et al., 2019 (22) China 1747

4 domains

19 items

Childbirth Experience Questionnaire 2

Original CEQ2,

Dencker et al., 2020 (23)

 Dencker et al., 2020 (23) Sweden 682

4 domains

22 items
Ghanbari-Homayi et al., 2019 (24) Iran 500

4 domains

23 items
Walker et al., 2019 (25) United Kingdom 263

4 domains

22 items

Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised

Original BSS-R,

Hollins Martin and Martin, 2014 (26)

 Jefford et al., 2018 (27) Australia 198

3 domains

10 items
Škodová et al., 2019 (28) Slovak Republic 506

3 domains

10 items
Romero-Gonzalez et al., 2019 (29) Spain 202

3 domains

10 items
Skvirsky et al., 2020 (30) Israel 288

3 domains

10 items
Martin et al., 2020 (31) Australia 445

3 domains

10 items
Nasiri et al., 2021 (32) Iran 212

3 domains

10 items
Nespoli et al., 2021 (33) Italy 297

3 domains

10 items
Omani-Samani et al., 2021 (34) Iran 396

2 domains

6 items
Mortazavi et al., 2021 (35) Iran 784

3 domains

10 items
Zafar et al., 2021 (36) Pakistan 200

3 domains

10 items
Emmens et al., 2021 (37) Netherlands 244

3 domains

10 items
Radoš et al., 2022 (38) Croatia 552

3 domains

10 items
Anikwe et al., 2022 (39) Nigeria 500

3 domains

9 items
Özdemir Gökmen et al., 2022 (40) Turkey 219

3 domains

10 items
Ratislavová et al., 2022 (41) Czech Republic 461

3 domains

10 items

Evaluation of psychometric properties of measuring instruments.

PROM Study Structural validity Internal consistency Cross-cultural validity Reliability
Total Subscale
IWCBEQ (7) ?* + − ? ?
WOMBLSQ4 (9) ? ? − + ?
QACE (11) + + − + +
CEQ (13) ? + − + +
(14) − + − + ?
(15) + + − + +
(16) ?* + − + +
(17) ? + − ? +
(18) ?* + + + +
(19) − + − + ?
(20) − + − + ?
(21) ? + − + −
CEQ 2 (22) + + ? + ?
(23) + + + + ?
(24) − + − + +
(25) ? ? − + −
BSS-R (27) − + − + ?
(28) + + − + ?
(29) − + − + ?
(30) − + + + ?
(31) + + + + ?
(32) + + + ? +
(33) + − − + ?
(34) ?* − − + ?
(35) − + − + ?
(36) − − − + ?
(37) − + + + ?
(38) + + + + ?
(39) ?* + ? ? ?
(40) − + + ? ?
(41) + + + + ?
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