Design and psychometric evaluation of the fathers' fear of childbirth scale: a mixed method study

• Main Authors: Seyedeh Fatemeh Ghaffari (Author), Seyed-Hamid Sharifnia (Author), Forouzan Elyasi (Author), Zohreh Shahhosseini (Author), Zohre Mohammadpoorsaravimozafar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Fear of childbirth is reported in 13% of fathers, and it may have adverse consequences for the fathers' health as well as their families. To reduce the fear of childbirth in the expectant fathers, an appropriate screening tool is needed. Due to the lack of a valid and reliab...