A survey on worries of pregnant women - Testing the German version of the Cambridge Worry Scale

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Petersen, Juliana J ^a   Paulitsch, Michael A ^a   Guethlin, Corina ^a   Gensichen, Jochen ^a,b   Jahn, Albrecht ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76349119269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-490     Document Type: Article

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