Parents' experience of living with a baby with infantile colic - a phenomenological hermeneutic study

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 317-324

  Landgren, Kajsa ^a   Hallström, Inger ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crying; Infantile colic; Interviews; Parents' experiences; Phenomenological hermeneutic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COLIC; CRYING; HUMAN; INFANT; PARENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SWEDEN;

ADULT; COLIC; CRYING; HUMANS; INFANT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; SWEDEN;

EID: 79955965437     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: 14716712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2010.00829.x     Document Type: Article

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