Women's Experiences of Empowerment in a Planned Home Birth: A Swedish Population-based Study

Birth

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 309-317

  Lindgren, Helena ^a   Erlandsson, Kerstin ^b  

^a DALARNA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Control; Empowerment; Home birth; Midwifery

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; LABOR PAIN; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; MIDWIFE; MOTHER; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; NURSE ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; SWEDEN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; LABOR PAIN; MIDWIFERY; MOTHERS; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; NURSE'S ROLE; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649538176     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.2010.00426.x     Document Type: Article

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