Conclusion
These findings indicate that the educational software increases self-efficacy of Iranian women to cope with labor. Studies have shown that self-efficacy can decrease pain perception [45] and fear of labor [43]. Also in Iran, several researchers have shown that fear of labor is an important factor to increase maternal request for c/s and recently Iranian women’s request for c/s is increased [16– 18]. Finally there is an evident growing rate of c/s in Iran, which is now becoming an epidemic. Immediate strategies should be adopted to prevent the rising trend and increasing number of unnecessary c/s in Iran [47]. So it seems that the use of the educational software by Iranian pregnant women could be an effective way to reduce the c/s rate in Iran indirectly.