Post-traumatic stress symptoms in mothers of very low birth weight infants 2-3 years post-partum

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 261-264

  Åhlund, Susanne ^a   Clarke, Paul ^a   Hill, Julia ^a   Ks Thalange, Nandu ^a  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Extremely low birth weight (ELBW); Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU); Post traumatic growth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; TERM BIRTH; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHERS; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 67651152610     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-009-0067-4     Document Type: Article

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