Women's experiences of coping with pregnancy termination for fetal abnormality

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 924-936

  Lafarge, Caroline ^a   Mitchell, Kathryn ^a   Fox, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

abortion; bereavement grief; coping and adaptation; interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA); lived experience; perinatal health; pregnancy; psychology; research, online; research, qualitative

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; BEREAVEMENT / GRIEF; COPING AND ADAPTATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS (IPA); METHODOLOGY; PERINATAL HEALTH; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH, ONLINE; RESEARCH, QUALITATIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; PROCEDURES;

ABORTION; BEREAVEMENT / GRIEF; COPING AND ADAPTATION; INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS (IPA); LIVED EXPERIENCE; PERINATAL HEALTH; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH, ONLINE; RESEARCH, QUALITATIVE;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAVIDITY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84878040762     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732313484198     Document Type: Article

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