Transforming loss: Taiwanese women's adaptation to stillbirth

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 387-395

  Hsu, Min Tao ^a   Tseng, Ying Fen ^b   Kuo, Ling Lih ^c  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HWA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c MEIHO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coping strategies; Interpretive ethnography; Patrilineal culture; Stillbirth; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GENDER IDENTITY; GRIEF; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOTHER; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TAIWAN; TRANSCULTURAL CARE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GENDER IDENTITY; GRIEF; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOTHERS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TAIWAN; TRANSCULTURAL NURSING;

EID: 0036830991     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02386.x     Document Type: Article

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