The prevalence of pain catastrophising in nulliparous women in Nepal; the importance for childbirth

In Lower-Middle-Income-Countries women are encouraged to present at a birthing facility for skilled care, but attending early can be associated with additional harm. Women admitted in latent labour are more likely to receive a cascade of unnecessary interventions compared with those attending a birt...

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subjects Adolescent
Adult
Analgesics
Anxiety
Biology and Life Sciences
Births
Catastrophization - epidemiology
Catastrophization - psychology
Childbirth
Childbirth & labor
Comparative analysis
Cross-Sectional Studies
Education
Education parks
Ethics
Female
Health care
Higher education institutions
Humans
Medicine and Health Sciences
Minority & ethnic groups
Nepal - epidemiology
Obstetrics
Pain
Pain Measurement
Parity
Parturition - psychology
People and Places
Perceptions
Pharmacy
Population studies
Pregnancy
Prevalence
Public health
Questionnaires
School facilities
Social Sciences
Surveys
Surveys and Questionnaires
Women
Womens health
Young Adult
title The prevalence of pain catastrophising in nulliparous women in Nepal; the importance for childbirth
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