Experience of support among mothers with and without post-traumatic stress symptoms following emergency caesarean section.

Objectives: The aim was to describe women with and without symptoms of post-traumatic stress (PTSS) following emergency caesarean section (EmCS), and how they perceived the support received in connection with the birth of their child.

Study Design: In this qualitative study 42 women with post-traumatic stress syndrome and 42 women without symptoms were interviewed by telephone six months after childbirth. Their responses were analysed using content analysis.

Sense of coherence and symptoms of post-traumatic stress after emergency caesarean section.

Background: In this study of women who had undergone an emergency caesarean section (EmCS), the aim was to examine the associations between, on the one hand, the new mother's sense of coherence (SOC) and obstetric and demographic variables a few days postpartum, and on the other hand, post-traumatic stress symptoms 3 months' postpartum.

Methods: In a prospective study, 122 Swedish- or English-speaking new mothers completed 2 self-assessment questionnaires, at 2 days and 3 months after an EmCS. To measure SOC, we used the Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC-13), and to measure reactions to traumatic events, the Impact of Event Scale (IES-15).