ABSTRACT
Background: The delivery process is a very stressful event for women giving birth, so they need a strong
social support system, one of that is the support of the husband. The purpose of this scoping review is to
provide up-to-date scientific evidence regarding the husband's role in reducing anxiety in labor mothers.
Methods: This research is a scoping review by adapting the framework of Arskey and O'Malley. Prisma-
Scr flowchart is used to display the literature search flow. Research articles searched using 3 search
engines, namely: PubMed, RsearchGate, and ScienceDirect. The keywords used for the literature search
are husband's role OR husband's support AND anxiety AND maternity AND childbirth OR labor OR
giving birth. This study uses the Joana Briggs Institute (JBI) Appraisal Tools to assess the quality of
articles. The inclusion criteria used were published 2018 – 2022, articles in English, focused on the
husband's role in reducing maternal anxiety.
Results: The results of the review show that there are 25 potentially relevant articles and 8 articles that
meet the requirements to be selected. Articles from 4 different countries, 8 qualified articles using both
quantitative and qualitative designs. This review raises 3 themes, namely the husband's role in childbirth,
the inhibiting factors of the husband's role in the birth process, the health system.
Conclusion:
The presence of husbands to accompany their wives during the birth process will actively relieve pain
and provide emotional support so as to increase the bond between husband and wife. Although husbands
admit that many are not actively involved in maternal health issues unless there