Gestational diabetes: The meaning of an at-risk pregnancy

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 66-81

  Evans, Marilyn K ^a   O'Brien, Beverley ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

At risk pregnancy; Diabetes experience; Gestational diabetes; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES CONTROL; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; LIFE EVENT; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR;

CANADA; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; PREGNANT WOMEN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 16644366601     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732304270825     Document Type: Article

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