A telephone intervention to reduce fatigue and symptom distress in mothers with difficult infants in the community

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 128-137

  Thome, Marga ^a   Alder, Beth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infant difficulty; Maternal fatigue; Nursing; Symptom distress; Telephone intervention

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ICELAND; INFANT; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; NURSING; POSTNATAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TELEPHONE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICELAND; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MOTHERS; POSTNATAL CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0032610028     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1999.00872.x     Document Type: Article

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