Psychosocial influences on women's experience of planned elective cesarean section

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 167-174

  Keogh, Edmund ^a   Hughes, Shelley ^b   Ellery, Deborah ^b   Daniel, Clare ^c   Holdcroft, Anita ^c  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety sensitivity; Birth partner; Cesarean section; Fear; Pain; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; EXPECTANT PARENT; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ANXIETY; CESAREAN SECTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 33744457254     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000197742.50988.9e     Document Type: Article

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