Giving birth: The voices of ecuadorian women

Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 146-154

  Callister, Lynn Clark ^a   Corbett, Cheryl ^a   Reed, Shelly ^a   Tomao, Cassidy ^a   Thornton, Katie G ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth stories; Ecuadorian women; Ethnographic inquiry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ECUADOR; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SELF CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; ECUADOR; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, MATERNITY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MOTHERS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARTURITION; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CARE; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 77951988418     PISSN: 08932190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JPN.0b013e3181db2dda     Document Type: Article

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