The Oxford Worries about Labour Scale: Women's experience and measurement characteristics of a measure of maternal concern about labour and birth

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 354-366

  Redshaw, Maggie ^a   Martin, Colin ^b   Rowe, Rachel ^a   Hockley, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childbirth; Maternal concerns; Pregnancy; Worry scale

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MATERNAL CARE; MENTAL STRESS; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; SELF REPORT; UNITED KINGDOM; ANXIETY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERIUM; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANXIETY; ENGLAND; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; PARTURITION; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 69149109556     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13548500802707159     Document Type: Article

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