Referral for fetal echocardiography is associated with increased maternal anxiety

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 60-69

  Rosenberg, Katherine B ^a   Monk, Catherine ^b   Glickstein, Julie S ^a   Levasseur, Stephanie M ^a   Simpson, Lynn L ^a   Kleinman, Charles S ^a   Williams, Ismee A ^a  

^a Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital ^*  (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defects; Echocardiography; Maternal anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL STRESS; MULTIPARA; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PRIMIGRAVIDA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952170145     PISSN: 0167482X     EISSN: 17438942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01674821003681472     Document Type: Article

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