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'I just feel like I am broken. I am the worst pregnant woman ever': A qualitative exploration of the 'at odds' experience of women's antenatal distress
- Source :
- Health care for women international. 38(6)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Advances in perinatal mental health research have provided valuable insights around risk factors for the overall development of maternal distress. However, there is still a limited understanding of the experience of women struggling emotionally during pregnancy. We explored how women view, experience, and interpret psychological distress antenatally. Eighteen Australian women participated in in-depth interviews that were analyzed thematically within a critical realist theoretical framework. We present and situate the current findings within the dominant discourse of the good mother, which arguably promotes guilt and stigma and results in women self-labeling as bad mothers.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Emotions
Prenatal care
Developmental psychology
Odds
Interviews as Topic
03 medical and health sciences
Critical realist
0302 clinical medicine
Pregnancy
medicine
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Qualitative Research
030504 nursing
Australia
Prenatal Care
medicine.disease
Mental health
Distress
General Health Professions
Female
Pregnant Women
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Maternal distress
Stress, Psychological
Qualitative research
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10964665
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Health care for women international
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2d6ea009e7dc0020887d8831a649c3f3