Auto-eficácia da grávida no parto

: adaptação e validação da escala "Childbirth Self-Efficacy Inventory (CBSEI)"

Abstract

The CBSEI - Childbirth Self-efficacy Inventory - is inventory that allows you to test self-efficacy for pregnant women in childbirth. It was created by Nancy Lowe in 1993 and is a reliable and valid instrument that was tested in the United States to gauge the confidence of the woman during labor, which used the reference of the Theory of Self-Efficacy by Bandura (1986) and following the methodology of Likert scale.The main objective of this research was to make the cultural adaptation and validation for Portuguese. For this study was carried out exploratory descriptive and quantitative methodology. to assess the validity of the Portuguese version of the CBSEI. To this end, the study was conducted in the Hospital of Porto (CHP) in obstetrical service.The study population consisted of 310 pregnant women who used to obstetric services from the CHP in the period September to December 2009, and accepted to participate in the study.After have followed the procedures proposed by the author the CBSEI proved to be a reliable and valid instrument to measure the confidence expressed by pregnant, has a Cronbach´s Alph ranging from 0,89 and 0,95. At each stage of labor was confirmed the distinction between expectation of self-efficacy and outcome expectation.It was found that the frequeny of previous experience, preparation classes for birth, marital status and age are important factors of self-efficacy of women in labor

Date of Award	Dec 2010
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Germano Couto (Supervisor) & Ana Paula Prata Sousa (Co-Supervisor)