Fear of pregnancy and childbirth

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 935, 2003, Pages 505-510

  Hofberg, Kristina ^a   Ward, M R ^a  

^a St George's Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANXIETY DISORDER; BULIMIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILDBIRTH; DELIVERY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EATING DISORDER; EXPERIENCE; FEAR; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; INFANTICIDE; LABOR PAIN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MENTAL DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; SUICIDE; TOKOPHOBIA;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ANXIETY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EATING DISORDERS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANTICIDE; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0141480811     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.79.935.505     Document Type: Review

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