Risk factors for developing post-traumatic stress disorder following childbirth: A systematic review

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1261-1272

  Andersen, Louise B ^a   Melvaer, Lisa B ^a   Videbech, Poul ^b   Lamont, Ronald F ^a,c   Joergensen, Jan S ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

labor and delivery; maternal morbidity; maternal mortality; obstetric complications; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ASPHYXIA; CESAREAN SECTION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EPISIOTOMY; FEAR; HUMAN; LABOR COMPLICATION; LABOR PAIN; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL ABUSE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; WESTERN EUROPE;

DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84868315966     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0412.2012.01476.x     Document Type: Review

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