Mother's anxiety and depression and associated risk factors during early pregnancy: Effects on fetal growth and activity at 2022 weeks of gestation

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 70-82

  Conde, Ana ^a   Figueiredo, Brbara ^a   Tendais, Iva ^a   Teixeira, César ^a   Costa, Raquel ^a   Pacheco, Alexandra ^a   Rodrigues, Maria Ceu ^b   Nogueira, Raul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b Centro Hospitalar Universitario do Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Fetal activity; Fetal growth; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS MOVEMENT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL SMOKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIMIPARA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COFFEE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PORTUGAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952232333     PISSN: 0167482X     EISSN: 17438942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01674821003681464     Document Type: Article

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