Women's expectations and experience of birth.
This was an exploratory study with three aims: (1) to examine the relationship during pregnancy between expectations of birth and symptoms of anxiety; (2) to examine the relationship between expectations and subsequent experience of birth; (3) to examine the effect of parity on expectations and expe...
| Publicado en: | Psychology & Health Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 79 - 93 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2005
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