Study Ventegodt (1997): study DK 1993

Public

31-33 aged, born at the university hospital, Denmark, 1993

Sample

Respondents

N = 4626

Non Response

36%

Assessment

Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
Data were taken from the medical files of mothers and their babies

Correlate

Authors's Label

Manner of delivery when born

Our Classification

Distribution

N all:4380,   1: 40.3%,   2a:1,0%,   2b:6,5%,   2c:3,3%,   2d:7,4%,   2e:25,8%,   2f:4,8%,   2g:2,2%,   2h:18,1%,   2i:1,3%

Operationalization

Manner of delivery when born as reported in medical file
1:  normal or spontaneos birth
2:  abnormal birth
    2a: assistance to birth by someone pushing from above
    2b: forceps/vacuum extraction
    2c: incomplete fetal extraction
    2d: caesarian section
    2e: episiotomy
    2f: ruptured perinum
    2g: manual removal of placenta or catyledon
    2h: other manner of birth (e.g.oxytocia or rupture of the membrane)
    2i: other intervention

Observed Relation with Happiness