Postnatal debriefing interventions to prevent maternal mental health problems after birth: Exploring the gap between the evidence and UK policy and practice

Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-105

  Rowan, Cathy ^b   Bick, Debra ^a,b   Bastos, Maria Helena Da Silva ^b  

^a Department of Midwifery and Women's Health ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Counseling; Debriefing; Maternity care; Policy; Post traumatic stress disorder; Postnatal; Practice; Women's views

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONFUSION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERVENTION STUDY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MENTAL DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COUNSELING; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL-CHILD NURSING; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOTHERS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSE MIDWIVES; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; POSTNATAL CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATE MEDICINE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 34249781118     PISSN: 1545102X     EISSN: 17416787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6787.2007.00088.x     Document Type: Article

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