Methods of Coping With Labor Pain Used by Jordanian Women

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-40

  Abushaikha, Lubna A ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

coping; Jordan; labor pain; low risk; parturients; women

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; JORDAN; LABOR PAIN; METHODOLOGY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELAXATION TRAINING; RELIGION; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; JORDAN; LABOR PAIN; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELAXATION TECHNIQUES; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPIRITUALITY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33845783733     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659606294194     Document Type: Article

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