Post-traumatic stress symptoms, parenting stress and mother-child relationships following childbirth and at 2 years postpartum

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 141-146

  McDonald, Sarah ^a   Slade, Pauline ^b   Spiby, Helen ^c   Iles, Jane ^d  

^a NHS Nottinghamshire County   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childbirth; Post traumatic stress syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOTHERS OBJECT RELATIONS SCALE SHORT FORM; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PARENTAL STRESS; PARENTING STRESS INDEX SHORT FORM; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PUERPERIUM; SELF REPORT;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PARTURITION; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80051738786     PISSN: 0167482X     EISSN: 17438942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0167482X.2011.596962     Document Type: Article

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