Improving Maternal Mental Health Following Preterm Birth Using an Expressive Writing Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Evaluations of evidence-based, easily accessible, psychological interventions to improve maternal mental health following very preterm birth are scarce. This study investigated the efficacy and acceptability of the expressive writing paradigm for mothers of very preterm infants. The level of materna...
| Publicado en: | Child Psychiatry & Human Development Vol. 47; no. 5; pp. 780 - 792 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2016
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