“…A pertinent feature of Australian maternity care services are that they remain highly medicalised (Benoit, Zadoroznyj, Hallgrimsdottir, Treloar, & Taylor, 2010;Weaver, Clark, & Vernon, 2005) despite the strong movement led by government reforms towards midwifery-led models (Quinn, Noble, Seale, & Ward, 2013;Tracy et al, 2013;Tracy et al, 2014). However, the movement toward woman-centred care and choice has gathered some pace in Australia (Catling & Homer, 2016) and similar to both the UK and the US (Fleming et al, 2016; C. J. The BSS-R would appear to be ideally suited as the measure of choice within this context, however an Australian version of the BSS-R has to date, yet to be developed and psychometrically evaluated.…”