Feeling in Control during Labor: Concepts, Correlates, and Consequences

Birth

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 235-247

  Green, Josephine M ^a,b   Baston, Helen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b MIRU   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAREGIVER; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR; LABOR PAIN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SATISFACTION; SELF CONTROL; UTERUS CONTRACTION; WELLBEING;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PAIN; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0344010637     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-536X.2003.00253.x     Document Type: Article

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