Qualitative insights into women's personal experiences of perinatal depression and anxiety

Women and Birth

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 179-184

  Highet, Nicole ^a   Stevenson, Amanda L ^b   Purtell, Carol ^a   Coo, Soledad ^c  

^a Centre of Perinatal Excellence COPE   (Australia)

^b Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Perinatal; Personal experiences; Postnatal depression; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; EXPECTATION; FACE TO FACE INTERVIEW; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; GROUNDED THEORY; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INSOMNIA; INTERVIEW; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTHER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT WORRY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PERSONAL APPEARANCE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESENTMENT; RURAL AREA; SELF CONCEPT; SELF DOUBT; SENSE OF SELF; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; UNHAPPINESS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ADAPTATION; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; ETIOLOGY; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL STRESS; PERINATAL CARE; POSTNATAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY; AUSTRALIA; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MOTHERS; PERINATAL CARE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84905730201     PISSN: 18715192     EISSN: 18781799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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