Crying babies, tired mothers - challenges of the postnatal hospital stay: An interpretive phenomenological study

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kurth, Elisabeth ^a,b   Spichiger, Elisabeth ^a   Zemp Stutz, Elisabeth ^b   Biedermann, Johanna ^c   Hösli, Irene ^c   Kennedy, Holly P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER SUPPORT; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL WELFARE; MATERNITY WARD; NEWBORN CARE; PERINATAL CARE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; SELF CARE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SWITZERLAND; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD CARE; CRYING; EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; POSTNATAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERAL DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CRYING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; POSTNATAL CARE; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77952030483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-10-21     Document Type: Article

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