Prevalence of negative birth perception, disaffirmation, perinatal trauma symptoms, and depression among postpartum women.

Purpose: This study documented new case and estimated annual case prevalence, and relationships among women's negative birth perceptions, provider disaffirmation, perinatal trauma symptoms, and depression at 6-7 months postpartum.

Design And Methods: An exploratory investigation of 71 White women (20.8% of the total population) was conducted.

From beginning to end: video-based introductory, instructional, and evaluation applications.

To assess the feasibility of incorporating video applications into distance education courses, faculty and student produced videos to aid in transferring knowledge from nursing courses to clinical practice. Student videos validated prerequisite physical assessment knowledge and skills, allowing identification of students who needed remedial work, therefore, facilitating progression into the advanced content. Faculty-generated video vignettes simulated family dynamics, thus making abstract content concrete.

Healing traumatizing provider interactions among women through short-term group therapy.

A short-term, cognitive group therapy intervention method (Insight: A cognitive enhancement program for women) to reduce or resolve ongoing psychological disruption and/or trauma was tested among women who experienced traumatizing provider interactions (TPI) in their childbearing experience. The sample included nine married, Caucasian women, ages 26-45, college educated; one to five children (n=19). Birth Perception; Posttraumatic Childbirth Stress; and Traumatizing Provider Interaction scores among 19 births confirmed perinatal psychological trauma.

Fantasies of the unborn among pregnant women.

Purpose: This investigation sought to describe how pregnant women fantasize about their unborn children.

Methods: A questionnaire using one open-ended question was given to 210 pregnant women in childbirth education classes. The final sample was 184.

Uncertainty in illness theory: a replication of the mediating effects of mastery and coping.

The purpose of this investigation was to replicate a test of the mediating functions of mastery and coping and to determine whether the relationships found in the initial test of the model would hold with a sample more heterogenous than the original sample. One hundred women receiving treatment for gynecological cancer participated in the investigation. Of the 14 relationships in the model, only 5 replicated significant paths and had overlapping confidence intervals.

Uncertainty in gynecological cancer: a test of the mediating functions of mastery and coping.

The purpose of this study was to test a portion of the uncertainty in illness model to determine whether mastery would be strengthened or weakened under conditions of uncertainty, and to test the ability of mastery and coping to function as mediators in the model. Mastery was proposed to mediate the relationship between uncertainty and the appraisal of danger and opportunity. Coping was proposed to mediate the relationships between danger or opportunity and emotional distress.