Women's experiences following severe perineal trauma: A qualitative study

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Priddis, Holly ^a   Schmied, Virginia ^a   Dahlen, Hannah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; BIRTH; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INJURY SCALE; INTERVIEW; LABOR; LABOR COMPLICATION; LACERATION; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PAIN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERINEUM; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUERPERIUM; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUTURE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LACERATIONS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PAIN; PARTURITION; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PERINEUM; POSTNATAL CARE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUTURES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 84894503869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-14-32     Document Type: Article

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