Context: Tokophobia is an intense fear of childbirth that may result in considerable
outcomes. This phenomenon may also be observed in fathers. However, studies are …

Background: Tokophobia has been defined as a psychological disorder which ranges from
insignificant to extreme fear of childbirth. The prevalence of tokophobia in pregnant women …

Background: Fear of childbirth has become a modern day epidemic amongst new fathers.
Becoming a father can be one of the most significant events in a life of a man. Whereas the …

Tokophobia is regarded as the intensive fear of childbirth that some pregnant women have.
However, little is known about the psychopathological details of tokophobia (fear of …

Tokophobia is a pathological fear or avoidance of childbirth, which has received little
attention and has been often neglected. 1 1. Aksoy AN, Aydin F, Kucur SK, Gözükara I …

Objective: To discuss and develop a statement on the current state of the evidence and
opinion in Fear of Childbirth (FoC) and Tokophobia (Tocophobia), and to provide …

Objective: To identify the prevalence of and to determine the risk factors for developing a
fear of childbirth (tokophobia). Methods: We evaluated 191 pregnant women during …

Intense fear of childbirth by expectant women is called tokophobia. Because there are no
qualitative studies targeting women with an intense fear of childbirth in Japan, it is unknown …

Fear of childbirth is defined as the fear experienced before, during, and after childbirth
(Wijma, Wijma, & Zar, 1998a). Alongside this definition, fear of childbirth is also defined in …

Objective Severe fear of childbirth (tokophobia; TP) is an understudied and under‐
recognised phenomenon that has significant implications for maternal mental health during …