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Abstract
Background: Childbirth self-efficacy and fear of child birth are one of the most factors that affect directly or indirectly on labor process. Aim: aim of the study was to; investigate the self-efficacy and fear from childbirth among pregnant women in Port Said city. Subjects and Methods: A descriptive study design was used to conduct the study at ante-natal clinics in 5 primary health care centers in Port-Said city, consisted of 200 pregnant women. Three tools used to collect the necessary data consisted of; structured interviewee sheet, childbirth self-efficacy inventory (CBSEI) and wijima delivery expectancy questionnaire (W-DEQ). Results: the current study revealed that about the majority of the studied women (96.5%) had low level of self-efficacy and more than half of the studied women (56.0%) had high level of fear of childbirth. A significant inverse relation was found between childbirth self-efficacy and fear of child birth. Conclusion: Age, parity and previous complications during labor are the most important factors that leading to high level of fear from childbirth. Also, high fear from childbirth correlated strongly with low childbirth self-efficacy. Recommendations: Designing and applying antenatal education classes about labor process and different methods used to help women to cope with labor pain.