'Safe passage': Pregnant Iranian Kurdish women's choice of childbirth method

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2130-2138

  Shahoei, Roonak ^a   Riji, Haliza Mohd ^b   Saeedi, Zhila Abed ^c  

^a KURDISTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Childbirth method; Grounded theory; Iranian Kurdish women; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EMOTION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDWIFE; NEWBORN; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAFETY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMOTIONS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRAN; MIDWIFERY; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PREGNANT WOMEN; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAFETY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 80052542646     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05656.x     Document Type: Article

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