Trait anxiety, negative emotions and the mothers' adaptation to an infant born subsequent to late pregnancy loss: A case-control study

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 843-851

  Hunfeld, J A M ^a   Taselaar Kloos, A K G ^a,b   Agterberg, G ^b   Wladimiroff, J W ^b   Passchier, J ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Mother infant adaptation; Pregnancy loss

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYING; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EATING; EMOTION; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME;

ABNORMALITIES; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0030920390     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199709)17:9<843::AID-PD147>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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