INTRODUCTION: Patient satisfaction is an important indicator of the quality of care provided. Evaluating women's satisfaction with childbirth is essential to improving obstetric care and ensuring a positive experience for mothers and newborns. The tools used to measure women's satisfaction with childbirth are very heterogeneous and multidimensional. Assessment tools used in practice should be tested and meet characteristics that are consistently validated.The aim is to identify currently available instruments measuring women's satisfaction with childbirth and to evaluate their structure, content and psychometric properties. METHODS: A systematic search for sources was carried out according to the criteria set. For the included studies, psychometric properties were assessed in accordance with the principles of the guideline for completing systematic reviews of patient-reported outcome measures, COSMIN. RESULTS: The review included 31 studies that reported the psychometric properties of six measurement instruments (questionnaires, scales). Content validity, structural validity, internal consistency, reliability and cross-cultural validity were assessed for the included studies. The Childbirth Experience Questionnaire (CEQ/CEQ2) and Birth Satisfaction Scale - Revised (BSS-R) were the most commonly used questionnaires in the studies. CONCLUSIONS: Thorough testing of tools measuring women's satisfaction with childbirth, and adapting them to cultural and social contexts, is still essential. It is crucial that valid and reliable questionnaires are available for midwives in practice, for use in research, to inform clinical practice and for the results to help develop the services offered.

UVOD: Zadovoljstvo bolnikov je pomemben kazalnik kakovosti zagotovljene oskrbe. Ocenjevanje zadovoljstva žensk s porodom je bistveno za izboljšanje porodniške oskrbe in zagotavljanje pozitivne izkušnje za matere in novorojenčke. Orodja za merjenje zadovoljstva žensk s porodom so zelo heterogena in večdimenzionalna. Orodja za ocenjevanje, ki se uporabljajo v praksi, bi morala biti preizkušena in imeti lastnosti, ki se dosledno potrjujejo.Cilj je opredeliti trenutno razpoložljive instrumente za merjenje zadovoljstva žensk s porodom ter oceniti njihovo strukturo, vsebino in psihometrične lastnosti. METODE: Opravljeno je bilo sistematično iskanje virov skladno z določenimi merili. Za vključene študije so bile ocenjene psihometrične lastnosti skladno z načeli smernic za izvajanje sistematičnih pregledov merjenja rezultatov, ki jih sporočajo bolniki COSMIN. REZULTATI: Pregled je zajemal 31 študij, ki so poročale o psihometričnih lastnostih šestih merilnih instrumentov (vprašalniki, lestvice). Za vključene študije so bile ocenjene veljavnost vsebine, strukturna veljavnost, notranja usklajenost, zanesljivost in medkulturna veljavnost. Najpogosteje uporabljena vprašalnika v študijah sta o porodni izkušnji (Childbirth Experience Questionnaire – CEQ/CEQ2) in revidirana lestvica zadovoljstva s porodom (Birth Satisfaction Scale – Revised – BSS-R). ZAKLJUČKI: Temeljito preizkušanje orodij za merjenje zadovoljstva žensk s porodom in njihovo prilagajanje kulturnim in družbenim okoljem je še vedno izjemno pomembno. Ključno je, da so na voljo veljavni in zanesljivi vprašalniki, ki se lahko uporabljajo v babiški praksi, v raziskavah, za podporo klinični praksi in za doseganje rezultatov, ki bodo prispevali k razvoju ponujenih storitev.

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