The miscarriage experience: More than just a trigger to psychological morbidity?

Psychology and Health

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 403-415

  Maker, Cathy ^a   Ogden, Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coping; Experiences; Interpretive phenomenological analysis; Miscarriage; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038489135     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0887044031000069343     Document Type: Article

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