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Psychosocial Adjustment During Pregnancy: The Experience of Mature Gravidas
dc.contributor.authorStark, Mary Annen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T20:46:12Z
dc.date.available2010-06-01T20:46:12Z
dc.date.issued1997-03en_US
dc.identifier.citationStark, Mary Ann (1997). "Psychosocial Adjustment During Pregnancy: The Experience of Mature Gravidas." Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing 26(2): 206-211. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/73870>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0884-2175en_US
dc.identifier.issn1552-6909en_US
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dc.description.abstractTo determine if gravidas ages 35 years and older have greater conflict in adapting to pregnancy than do younger gravidas. Design : Static group comparison. Setting : Prenatal care facilities and prenatal education classes. Participants : Sixty-four older gravidas (35 years and older) and 46 younger gravidas (32 years and younger) who were in their 3rd trimester of pregnancy. Main Outcome Measure : Lederman Prenatal Self-Evaluation Questionnaire II, which contains seven scales measuring conflict in psychosocial tasks during pregnancy. Results : Older gravidas had significantly less fear of helplessness and loss of control in labor than did younger gravidas. Age and education but not parity may account for this finding. Conclusions : Age and education may balance the additional concerns older gravidas may have about pregnancy and allow older gravidas to adjust to pregnancy as well as younger women do.en_US
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dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.rights1997 NAACOG, a division of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologistsen_US
dc.titlePsychosocial Adjustment During Pregnancy: The Experience of Mature Gravidasen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelNursingen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelObstetrics and Gynecologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHealth Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumMary Ann Stark is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and teaches at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. When this study was written, she was a nursing education instructor at Bronson Hospital School of Nursing, Kalamazoo, MI.en_US
dc.identifier.pmid9087905en_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73870/1/j.1552-6909.1997.tb02134.x.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1552-6909.1997.tb02134.xen_US
dc.identifier.sourceJournal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursingen_US
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