Labor Pain - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Previous birth experience and birth anxiety: predictors of caesarean section on demand?

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate pregnant women's intentions for opting for caesarean section (CS), their experiences regarding previous births and their expectations for subsequent delivery. Our objectives were to identify ... Read more...

The management of breakthrough pain during labour.

30 Jul 2009 There is a long history of attempts to alleviate the pain of childbirth, particularly in Asian and Middle Eastern civilisations. In the UK, it was the administration of chloroform to Queen Victoria by John Snow in 1853 that is widely credited with ... Read more...

An educational intervention to improve women's ability to cope with childbirth.

30 Jul 2009 AIM AND OBJECTIVE: To test the effectiveness of an efficacy-enhancing educational intervention to promote women's self-efficacy for childbirth and coping ability in reducing anxiety and pain during labour. BACKGROUND: The evidence of the effective ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Labor Pain - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Previous birth experience and birth anxiety: predictors of caesarean section on demand? 30 Aug 2009
• The management of breakthrough pain during labour. 30 Jul 2009
• An educational intervention to improve women's ability to cope with childbirth. 30 Jul 2009
• The effects of meperidine and epidural analgesia in labor on maternal heart rate variability. 18 Jan 2009
• Need feedback on labor encouragement method. 30 Dec 2008
• Pregnancy and labor alternative therapy research. 30 Dec 2008
• A longitudinal study of women's memory of labour pain--from 2 months to 5 years after the birth. 7 Dec 2008
• Pregnancy and labor alternative therapy research. 30 Aug 2008
• A reader responds to "Sterile water is better than acupuncture in relieving the pain of labor". 29 Jul 2008
• Tensions and teamwork in nursing and midwifery relationships. 29 Jun 2008
• [Labor pain and pain relief] 10 Jun 2008
• Pain in childbirth and postpartum recovery: the role of catastrophizing. 31 May 2008
• Efficacy of patient controlled epidural analgesia during labor analgesia--a prospective randomized study using 0.1% bupivacaine with fentanyl 2 mg/ml. 30 May 2008
• A survey of attitudes of expectant first-time fathers and mothers toward epidural analgesia for labor. 19 May 2008
• [Better mother after a painful labor?] 15 Apr 2008
• [Take labor pain seriously] 15 Apr 2008
• Birth then and now. 16 Mar 2008
• More in hope than expectation: a systematic review of women's expectations and experience of pain relief in labour. 12 Mar 2008
• Massage or music for pain relief in labour: a pilot randomised placebo controlled trial. 2 Mar 2008
• Mothers' views of their childbirth experience two years after term breech delivery. 28 Feb 2008

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Technical information about 'Labor Pain'

Definition: Pain associated with OBSTETRIC LABOR in CHILDBIRTH. It is caused primarily by UTERINE CONTRACTION as well as pressure on the CERVIX; BLADDER; and the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT. Labor pain mostly occurs in the ABDOMEN; the GROIN; and the BACK.

Descriptor UI: D048949

Alternative terms: Labor Pain; Pain, Labor; Obstetric Pain; Pain, Obstetric;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.617.515; C23.888.592.612.490; C23.888.646.492;

History Note: 2005