Psychometric Evaluation of the Persian Version of the Childbirth Experience Questionnaire (CEQ)

Table 4

P-CEQ overall and subscale scores by different groups ().

Groups	Own capacity	Participation	Professional support	Perceived safety	Mean CEQ score
Hospital type
Public ()	2.3 (0.6)	2.6 (0.6)	2.8 (0.6)	2.7 (0.5)	2.4 (0.5)
Private ()	2.3 (0.5)	2.5 (0.5)	2.5 (0.5)	2.2 (0.4)	2.3 (0.4)
value	0.80	0.40	0.080	0.99	0.92
Cohen’s effect size	0.05	0.10	0.09	0.33	0.22
Labor duration
≤12 h ()	2.5 (0.6)	2.6 (0.7)	2.7 (0.7)	2.6 (0.7)	2.6 (0.5)
>12 h ()	2.3 (0.7)	2.5 (0.8)	2.5 (0.8)	2.3 (0.8)	2.3 (0.6)
value	0.001	0.510	0.087	0.005	0.007
Cohen’s effect size	0.33	0.10	0.15	0.28	0.26
Oxytocin augmentation
Yes ()	2.4 (0.7)	2.5 (0.7)	2.7 (0.7)	2.5 (0.7)	2.5 (0.6)
No ()	2.4 (0.6)	2.6 (0.6)	2.6 (0.7)	2.5 (0.7)	2.5 (0.5)
value	0.852	0.429	0.081	0.998	0.912
Cohen’s effect size	0.06	0.11	0.07	0.00	0.02
Type of birth
Spontaneous vaginal ()	2.8 (0.5)	2.8 (0.8)	3.5 (0.5)	3 (0.6)	3 (0.4)
Instrumental ()	2.5 (0.5)	2.6 (0.8)	3.5 (0.4)	2.6 (0.6)	2.9 (0.4)
value	0.082	0.18	0.50	0.01	0.030
Cohen’s effect size	0.30	0.20	0.01	0.30	0.30
Perineal status after birth
Episiotomy ()	2.7 (0.6)	2.8 (0.9)	3.6 (0.6)	3 (0.7)	3.1(0.6)
Tears (grade 1 and 2) ()	2.6 (0.5)	2.6 (0.8)	3.5 (0.5)	2.8 (0.6)	2.9 (0.4)
value	0.42	0.50	0.43	0.035	0.07
Cohen’s effect size	0.36	0.30	0.04	0.22	0.36

Data presented as mean (SD); Mann–Whitney test was used to compute values. The overall score of the CEQ was the mean score of the four subscales.