Parental level of anxiety, sense of coherence and state of mind when choroid plexus cysts have been identified at a routine ultrasound examination in the second trimester of pregnancy: A case control study

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 95-100

  Larsson, Anna Karin ^a,b   Svalenius, Elizabeth Crang ^b   Marsal, Karel ^a   Dykes, Anna Karin ^b,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Centre of Caring Sciences   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Parents; Pregnancy; Routine obstetric ultrasound; Sense of coherence; Soft marker

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHOROID PLEXUS; CHOROID PLEXUS CYST; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENTAL AGE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; CHOROID PLEXUS; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PARENTS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PSYCHOMETRICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 67651146639     PISSN: 0167482X     EISSN: 17438942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01674820903030173     Document Type: Article

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