Somali immigrant new mothers’ childbirth experiences in Minnesota

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 359-367

  Missal, Bernita ^a   Clark, Connie ^a   Kovaleva, Mariya ^a  

^a BETHEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural beliefs and practices; Somali immigrant mothers; Transcultural nursing; Trusting relationships

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; CULTURAL NURSING; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; ETHNONURSING RESEARCH; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; MINNESOTA; MOTHER; NURSE; RELIGION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOMALI (CITIZEN); ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; LIFE EVENT; MIGRANT; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOMALIA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MINNESOTA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTHERS; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOMALIA;

EID: 84978712098     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: 15527832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659614565248     Document Type: Article

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