Exploring women’s self-reported health problems in pregnancy in the UK and Norway
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15217360 |
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| Authors | Anne Britt Vika Nilsen (0000-0003-0521-0632, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, corresponding author), Tine Schauer Eri (0000-0003-0679-8343, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University), Soo Downe (0000-0003-2848-2550, ReaCH group and THRIVE Centre, University of Central Lancashire), Eva Haukeland Fredriksen (0000-0001-5609-8308, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 10-11 |
| Pages | 1438-1453 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Care For Women International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07399332.2021.2021913 |
| PMID | 37812671 |
| OpenAlex | W4206324299 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Women usually conceptualize pregnancy as a normal physiological state. In contrast, formal maternity care provision tends to be focused on pathology and risk. The authors aim to explore the extent to which childbearing women apply a sickness lens to pregnancy. We have therefore examined antenatal problems spontaneously reported by 4,000 UK and Norwegian women who responded to the international social media-based Babies Born Better survey. We coded and classified the free-text comments of the respondents as either complaint or disease. We found striking differences in the rates and types of problems reported by the women. We discuss our findings by applying different perspectives of medicalization and of lay and biomedical knowledge
Complaint · Developmental psychology · Family medicine · Maternity care · Medicalization · Norwegian · Political science · Pregnancy · Psychiatry · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions · Medicine · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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