Support during birth interacts with prior trauma and birth intervention to predict postnatal post-traumatic stress symptoms

Psychology and Health

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1553-1570

  Ford, Elizabeth ^a   Ayers, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

childbirth; control; intervention; PTSD; support; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTNATAL CARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PARTURITION; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATE MEDICINE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 79955521513     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: 14768321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2010.533770     Document Type: Article

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