Health services utilization of women following a traumatic birth
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Creedy, DK
Fenwick, J
Buist, A
Scuffham, PA
Gamble, J
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This cohort study compared 262 women with high childbirth distress to 138 non-distressed women. At 12 months, high distress women had lower health-related quality of life compared to non-distressed women (EuroQol five-dimensional (EQ-5D) scale 0.90 vs. 0.93, p = 0.008), more visits to general practitioners (3.5 vs. 2.6, p = 0.002) and utilized more additional services (e.g. maternal health clinics), with no differences for infants. Childbirth distress has lasting adverse health effects for mothers and increases health-care utilization.
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Archives of Women's Mental Health
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18
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6
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Cognitive and computational psychology
Midwifery
Applied and developmental psychology
Clinical and health psychology