Ambivalence, outcome of childbearing decision making among women
نویسندگان
1 The Research Center for Safe Motherhood, Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
2 Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
4 Department of Antropology, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.
doi
10.22037/anm.v24i86.8461چکیده
Background and objectives: Currently childbearing is recognized as an experience with contradictoryfeelings for women. Knowing the decision making process of childbearing is an important aspect ofreproductive health. This study aimed to explain the experiences of ambivalence after making decision forchildbearing in Iranian women.Materials and methods: This qualitative study was conducted using conventional content analysis approachwith 32 married women from Tehran who were pregnant for the first time or were using contraceptivemethods. Purposeful sampling was used and continued until data saturation. In-depth unstructured interviewswere used to collect the data. Analysis of the data occurred simultaneously with data collection using contentanalysis based on Graneheim and Lundman method in MAXQDA 2007 software.Findings: The analysis of the data led to extraction of 3 themes of certainty and satisfaction versusuncertainty and indecision, decision making in silence, and bargaining. Women feel ambivalent after makingdecision for childbearing because of the manner they make the decision, persistence of uncertainties andworries along with satisfaction and peace.Conclusion: Ambivalence in childbearing decision making is a prevalent and challenging phenomenon, andis potentially important for realizing pregnancy behavior and providing appropriate interventions in preconceptionconsultations.Keywords: decision making, childbearing, ambivalence, qualitative study
