Τόμος 30 (2016) – Τεύχος 3 – Άρθρο 4 – Review of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics- Διεθνής Έκδοση – Volume 30 (2016) – Issue 3 – Article 4 – Review of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics – International Edition

By | | Aikaterini Petsa, Armanta Kiriazi, Panagiοta Tzela, Αθανασία Bαρβαρέσου,Athanasia Varvaresou, Αικατερίνη Λυκερίδου - Katerina Lykeridou, Κλεάνθη Γουρουντή - Kleanthi Gourounti, Πλήρες Κείμενο στα Αγγλικά - Full Text in English, Σπυρίδων Παπαγεωργίου, Spyridon Papageorgiou, Στατιστική μελέτη - Statistical study
Title Tocophobia in Pregnancy and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Author Kleanthi Gourounti, Armanta Kiriazi, Aikaterini Petsa, Panagiοta Tzela, Katerina Lykeridou
Affilations Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Health and Caring Professions, Technological Educational Institution (TEI) of Athens, Athens, Hellas
Citation Gourounti K., Kiriazi A., Petsa A., Tzela P., Lykeridou K. : Tocophobia in Pregnancy and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Review Clin. Pharmakol. Pharmakokinet. Int. Ed. 30(1): 85-88 (2016)
Publication Date Accepted for publication (Final Version): November 28, 2016
Full Text Language English
Keywords Childbirth, Pregnancy, Tocophobia, Post traumatic stress disorder, Self-efficacy
Other Terms Statistical study
Summary Pregnant women often experience feelings of fear and anxiety when contemplating the moment of birth. Tocophobia refers to the existence of intense anxiety and pathological fear about childbirth by vaginal route and is separated to primary – if there is before the first birth – secondary – if there is after the first birth (1). Some of the symptoms of tocophobia are nervousness, worry-tension and relaxation weakness, insomnia and nightmares, crying and tachycardia, change in eating habits. The tocophobia (mainly the primary) have been observed to relate to the existence of low expectation of self-efficacy and confidence (2). Traumatic disorder after childbirth described first by Bydlowski and Raoul-Duval in 1978. According to Bydlowski, trauma or mental injury is defined as a fact of life of the subject is determined by the intensity of the inability of the subject to respond adequately to this, from the inconvenience and the constant pathogenic effects caused in psychic organization
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