How do different portrayals of childbirth on social media influence fear of childbirth and birth preferences in nulliparous pregnant women?

The submitted dataset was used in the Honours thesis, “Birthing in the Age of Social Media: The Influence of Social Media Content on Fear of Childbirth and Obstetric Preferences During Pregnancy.” The dataset contains three files, including the cleaned jamovi data file, jamovi output, and final manifest content analysis structure. All data was collected anonymously using Qualtrics. The jamovi data file contains the survey responses of 407 participants who were first-time (or nulliparous) Australian pregnant women. Respondents indicated their socio-demographic details, obstetric details and preferences, fear towards childbirth using the Fear of Birth Scale (FOBS), estimated social media use, and the five most frequently seen features within childbirth-related social media content. A total of 348 respondents were retained for the final analysis which was performed using jamovi. The jamovi output includes descriptive statistics, a two-tailed independent samples t-test, two chi-square tests of independence, and additional post-hoc analysis. The dataset also includes the final meaning units, codes, subcategories, and categories generated from the manifest content analysis performed on open-text responses. Open-text responses listed additional features seen within childbirth-related content that were not listed in the survey options.