NCT00801970

Fear of Childbirth (Tokophobia) - Etiology, Essence and Clinical Implications

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 150 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is twofold: * to understand the etiology and the essence of fear of childbirth * to examine the implications and efficiency of several forms of psychological therapy.

Detailed description

Fear of childbirth (Tokophobia) is inconsistently defined in the research literature: some define it as an anxiety disorder while it is often defined as a form of phobia; some regard only the pre-pregnancy period, some regard the anxiety during pregnancy and some focus on the labor process. Despite the high prevalence (between 13%-20% of fertile women), research in this area is scarce and the current findings are incohesive due to various conceptualizations of the phenomenon and to various measurement methods.

Conditions

• Phobias

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Psychological Treatment	15 weekly therapy sessions.
BEHAVIORAL	Group Therapy	3 months of weekly group therapy sessions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-01-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2011-01-01
• First posted: 2008-12-04
• Last updated: 2008-12-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel