Vulnerable Baby Scale: Development and piloting of a questionnaire to measure maternal perceptions of their baby's vulnerability

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 419-423

  Kerruish, Nicola J ^a   Settle, Kerryn ^a   Campbell Stokes, Priscilla ^a   Taylor, Barry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Questionnaire; Vulnerable child syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAUNDICE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; VULNERABLE CHILD SYNDROME; VULNERABLE POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; INFANT; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEW ZEALAND; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; NEW ZEALAND; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 27744460534     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2005.00658.x     Document Type: Article

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