Pre-conception to parenting: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of the qualitative literature on motherhood for women with severe mental illness

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 173-196

  Dolman, Clare ^a   Jones, Ian ^b   Howard, Louise M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pregnancy; Qualitative research; Severe mental illness; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; CUSTODY; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; GUILT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; MOTHER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; PUERPERAL PSYCHOSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STIGMA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANXIETY; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOTHERS; PARENTING; PRECONCEPTION CARE; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL STIGMA;

EID: 84878653318     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: 14351102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-013-0336-0     Document Type: Article

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