© 2005 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. & Royal College of Nursing
Qualitative
Mothers with post-traumatic stress disorder after traumatic childbirth struggled to survive and experienced nightmares, flashbacks, anger, anxiety, depression, and isolation
Beck CT. Post-traumatic stress disorder due to childbirth: the aftermath. Nurs Res 2004;53:216–24.[CrossRef][Medline]
Q What is the essence of mothers’ experiences of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after traumatic births?
Key Words: stress disorders (post-traumatic) • puerperal disorders • mothers • parturition
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
Descriptive phenomenology.
A website hosted in New Zealand.
38 mothers (mean age 33 y, 32% primipara) from 4 countries (New Zealand, United States, Australia, and United Kingdom) who had experienced PTSD attributable to birth trauma (women reported that the diagnosis was made by a healthcare professional) and were willing to articulate their experiences. Length of time from birth trauma to study participation ranged from 6 weeks to 14 years.
Women were recruited through Trauma and Birth Stress, a charitable trust in New Zealand founded to support women who had experienced birth trauma and to educate healthcare professionals and the general public about PTSD after childbirth. Women were asked to describe in writing their experiences of PTSD after childbirth in as much detail as they wished. 2 women hand wrote and sent their stories by post; 36 submitted their stories as email attachments. The phenomenological analysis involved reading and rereading participants’
School of Nursing, McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in this journal
- Similar articles in PubMed
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
-
Child and adolescent psychiatry (paedatrics)
-
Child and adolescent psychiatry
-
Child health
-
Anxiety disorders (including OCD and PTSD)
-
Infant health
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
