Maternal role attainment with medically fragile infants: Part 1. measurement and correlates during the first year of life

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-34

  Miles, Margaret Shandor ^a   Holditch Davis, Diane ^b   Burchinal, Margaret R ^a   Brunssen, Susan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Maternal role attainment; Medically fragile infants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; ROLE PLAYING; SATISFACTION; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; ROLE; SELF EFFICACY; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78751549947     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20419     Document Type: Article

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