A study of Swedish midwives' encounters with infibulated African women in Sweden

Midwifery

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 113-125

  Widmark, Catarina ^a   Tishelman, Carol ^a   Ahlberg, Beth Maina ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Skaraborgs Institutet   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JOB PERFORMANCE; LABOR; MATERNAL WELFARE; MATERNITY WARD; MIDWIFE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VAGINAL DELIVERY; AFRICA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; LITERATURE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STANDARD; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AFRICA; ANECDOTES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFERY; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SWEDEN;

EID: 0036617494     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/midw.2002.0307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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