Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to describe the perception on birth experience of parturients cared by student nurses, Faculty of Nursing, Burapha University. One hundred and sixty-seven parturients were chosen by cluster random sampling. The sample was interviewed after delivery. The data was analyzed in percentage, mean, standard deviation and t-test.Results of the study revealed that 99.4% of the parturients cared by student nurses had positive birth experience. The level of birth experience in summary as well each part was positive. There was statistically significant difference of the birth experience between primiparous and multiparous (p<.001). The other was the birth experience between the parturients whose her duration of labor longer than 8 hours and not longer than 8 hours (p<.001).