Predictors of staff distress in response to professionally experienced miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal loss: A questionnaire survey

International Journal of Nursing Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1090-1097

  Wallbank, Sonya ^a   Robertson, Noelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Neonatal death; Professional grief loss; Psychological morbidity; Staff distress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879601430     PISSN: 00207489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2012.11.022     Document Type: Article

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