Subsequent childbirth after a previous traumatic birth

Nursing Research

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 241-249

  Beck, Cheryl Tatano ^a   Watson, Sue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Department of Trauma and Birth Stress ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

phenomenology; posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); subsequent childbirth; traumatic childbirth

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; BIRTH; DELIVERY; DENIAL; EDUCATION; FEAR; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; LABOR COMPLICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERAL DISORDER; RISK FACTOR; SELF CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PARITY; PARTURITION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SELF CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 77954233246     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NNR.0b013e3181e501fd     Document Type: Article

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