Making meaning: Women's birth narratives

JOGNN - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 508-518

  Callister, Lynn Clark ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth narratives; Birth stories; Meaning of childbirth; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIENCE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING EDUCATION; PARENTHOOD; PREGNANCY; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT; ADULT; ASIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; LABOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MOTHER; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OBSTETRICAL NURSING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCANDINAVIA; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARD; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADULT; AMERICAS; ASIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MOTHERS; NARRATION; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OBSTETRICAL NURSING; PARTURITION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCANDINAVIA; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOUTH AFRICA; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 4644234604     PISSN: 08842175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0884217504266898     Document Type: Article

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