3. ResultsA total of 660 pregnant w

3. Results
A total of 660 pregnant women whose gestational age ranged from 28 to 40 weeks were employed. About 49.4%
of the pregnant women were nulliparous (n=326), and 50.6% were multiparous (n=334). 30.6% of the women’s age ranged between 15 and 19, %25 were between 25 and 29 and 5.1% were between 35 and above. While 32.4% of
them were in gestation week between 31 and 33, 47.3% were in gestation week between 34 and 37. With regard to
educational level, 43.5% completed primary school, 44.8% completed secondary school and 11.7% completed a
higher education. 32.7% of the participants experienced abortion, 16.5% miscarriage, 3.0% stillbirth.
Two hundred and seventy one women met the criteria of fear of childbirth in the clinic range using the cut
off score • 85 on the W-DEQ. When we compared W-DEQ score between first time mothers (nulliparous) and
multiparous, fear of childbirth is greater among participants who were expecting their first child. While 46.6% of
nulliparous had severe fear of childbirth, this rate was 40% among multiparous. As a result of multiple comparisons
statistically significant difference was found between all fear groups (F=609.60; p