Prevalence and predictors of women's experience of psychological trauma during childbirth

Birth

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 36-46

  Soet, Johanna E ^a   Brack, Gregory A ^b   Dilorio, Colleen ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0345269227     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-536X.2003.00215.x     Document Type: Article

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