Perceptions of postnatal care : factors associated with primiparous mothers perceptions of postnatal communication and care
Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine whether personality and/or psychological functioning affect mothers' perceptions of postnatal communication and their level of satisfaction with their postnatal care. Mothers' perceptions of the communication with health professionals prenatally and during birth may be affected by their personality traits and psychological functioning and are linked to the level of satisfaction they have in their healthcare. Little is known about factors that are associated with perceptions of communication within postnatal care and the impact this may have on satisfaction with care.
Citation
McLellan , J & Laidlaw , A 2013 , ' Perceptions of postnatal care : factors associated with primiparous mothers perceptions of postnatal communication and care ' , BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth , vol. 13 , 227 . https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-13-227
Publication
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1471-2393Type
Journal article
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© 2013 McLellan and Laidlaw; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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