Post-traumatic stress disorder due to childbirth: The aftermath

Nursing Research

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 216-224

  Beck, Cheryl Tatano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth trauma; Phenomenology; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILDBIRTH; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER; NEW ZEALAND; NIGHTMARE; PHENOMENOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTH; DREAM; FEAR; FEMALE; FORCEPS DELIVERY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERAL DISORDER; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VIDEORECORDING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANGER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICATION; DREAMS; EXTRACTION, OBSTETRICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MOTHERS; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 4143053974     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006199-200407000-00004     Document Type: Article

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