Maternal psychological distress and parenting stress after the birth of a very low-birth-weight infant.
Context: Few studies document how parents adapt to the experience of a very low-birth-weight (VLBW; <1500 g) birth despite societal concerns about the ethics and justification of intensive care for these infants.Objective: To determine the degree and type of stress experienced over time by mothers w...
| Publicado en: | JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 281; no. 9; pp. 799 - 806 |
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American Medical Association
3/3/99
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