Negotiating the transition from adolescence to motherhood: Coping with prenatal and parenting stress in teenage mothers in Mulago hospital, Uganda

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kaye, Dan K ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; MORALITY; PARENTAL STRESS; PARENTHOOD; PRENATAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF ESTEEM; SUPPORT GROUP; UGANDA; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHERS; PARENTING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UGANDA;

EID: 42149185514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-83     Document Type: Article

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