The Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire a factor analytic study

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 160-163

  Garthus Niegel, Susan ^a,b   Størksen, Hege Therese ^a   Torgersen, Leila ^b   Von Soest, Tilmann ^c   Eberhard Gran, Malin ^b  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN SOCIAL RESEARCH NOVA   (Norway)

Author keywords

Fear of childbirth; Methodologies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEAR OF CHILDBIRTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; WIJMA DELIVERY EXPECTANCY/EXPERIENCE QUESTIONNAIRE;

ANXIETY; CULTURE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80051708306     PISSN: 0167482X     EISSN: 17438942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0167482X.2011.573110     Document Type: Article

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