ReviewPostgraduate medical journal2003
Fear of pregnancy and childbirth.
Review in Postgraduate medical journal, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 196 citations in OpenAlex.
- Ethiopian women's tokophobia of childbirth and its predictors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions for fear of childbirth including tocophobia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Women's experiences of fear of childbirth: a metasynthesis of qualitative studies.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2020Pooled it
- Definitions, measurements and prevalence of fear of childbirth: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2018Pooled it
- Debriefing interventions for the prevention of psychological trauma in women following childbirth.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Study protocol for reducing childbirth fear: a midwife-led psycho-education intervention.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2013Trial
- Psychological Mechanisms in Fear of Childbirth: Intolerance of Uncertainty in Nulliparous and Multiparous Women.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2026Article
- Predictors of Fear of Childbirth in Nulliparous Women: Childhood Traumas and Attachment Patterns.Europe's journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Therapeutic Termination of Pregnancy Under the Umbrella of Environmental, Socio-Economic Factors and High-Risk Pregnancy.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Transforming care by integrating maternity and psychological support: a mixed-methods evaluation of a Maternal Mental Health Service.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Clusters and case vignettes of impaired maternal-fetal bonding in pregnancy: A mixed method approach.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
- Individual-family and social predictors of fear of childbirth in nulliparous pregnant women in Amol, Iran.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Does fear of childbirth in nulliparous women affect fetal outcomes?Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2025Article
- Validation of a Questionnaire Assessing Pregnant Women's Perspectives on Addressing the Psychological Challenges of Childbirth.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- Tokophobia-Extreme Fear of Pregnancy and Birth and Implications for Care: A Case Report.The Journal of perinatal education · 2024Article
- Tokophobia: Case Reports and Narratives of Ten Japanese Women.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Alarming Trends of Cesarean Section-Time to Rethink: Evidence From a Large-Scale Cross-sectional Sample Survey in India.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Mode of delivery preferences: the role of childbirth fear among nulliparous women.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The Childbirth Fear Questionnaire and the Wijma Delivery Expectancy Questionnaire as Screening Tools for Specific Phobia, Fear of Childbirth.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Pregnancy is a major life event for all women. However, when a psychiatric disorder is added to or exacerbated by the pregnancy then the problem requires expert knowledge from more than one area of medicine. This paper looks at pregnancy and the relationship with depression, eating disorders, and pathological fear of childbirth or tokophobia. It also examines the outcome for these women and their babies. Mental illness is a serious concern. It is now recognised that death from suicide is the leading cause of maternal death overall. Research in these areas is relatively sparse but an attempt is made to collate what is known.
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