Stress and anxiety associated with prenatal diagnosis

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 221-228

  Kowalcek, Ingrid ^a  

^a Spezielle Geburtshilfe und Perinatalmedizin ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

anxiety; fetus; pregnancy; prenatal medicine; stress

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MATERNAL CARE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; UNWANTED PREGNANCY;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33947723699     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2006.11.009     Document Type: Review

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