Giving Birth:Voices of Chinese Women

Journal of Holistic Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 100-116

  Kartchner, Robin ^a   Callister, Lynn Clark ^b  

^a INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

childbirth; Chinese culture; phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTH; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038142862     PISSN: 08980101     EISSN: 15525724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0898010103021002002     Document Type: Article

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