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Personal and social attitudes toward pain may affect the perception of pain in pregnancy. Anxiety states and fear can increase susceptibility to pain. Low level of education, and misinformation may affect the pain experience. The pain experience is personal and abstract. The centrally received stimulus gets filtered, processed and perceived through a range of motivations, emotions, past experiences, cognitive, psychosocial, and cultural variables. Fear of birth pain is strongly associated with higher use of epidural analgesia, with lower satisfaction scores, and with less effective analgesia.
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Abdallah, R., Steyn, P.P., Kamel, I. (2019). Factors Influencing the Perception of Pain in Pregnancy. In: Abd-Elsayed, A. (eds) Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99124-5_211
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