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Emotion in women undergoing amniocentesis in the second trimester of pregnancy. 1992

J R Harward

Department of Nursing, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089.

A descriptive study was conducted to determine the emotions of women at three points during the amniocentesis process. A volunteer convenience sample of 60 women who were undergoing a first amniocentesis in the second trimester of pregnancy participated in the study. Participants completed a demographic and an amniocentesis information survey upon entry into the study. An emotion scale was administered at three specific times. Results showed that positive emotions increased significantly as the process unfolded. Some negative emotions decreased over time. Correlation of the information score and the emotion score demonstrated no significant relationship between these variables.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D011247	Pregnancy	The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.	Gestation,Pregnancies
D011262	Pregnancy Trimester, Second	The middle third of a human PREGNANCY, from the beginning of the 15th through the 28th completed week (99 to 196 days) of gestation.	Midtrimester,Pregnancy, Second Trimester,Trimester, Second,Midtrimesters,Pregnancies, Second Trimester,Pregnancy Trimesters, Second,Second Pregnancy Trimester,Second Pregnancy Trimesters,Second Trimester,Second Trimester Pregnancies,Second Trimester Pregnancy,Second Trimesters,Trimesters, Second
D004644	Emotions	Those affective states which can be experienced and have arousing and motivational properties.	Feelings,Regret,Emotion,Feeling,Regrets
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000649	Amniocentesis	Percutaneous transabdominal puncture of the uterus during pregnancy to obtain amniotic fluid. It is commonly used for fetal karyotype determination in order to diagnose abnormal fetal conditions.	Amniocenteses
D013997	Time Factors	Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.	Time Series,Factor, Time,Time Factor
D015999	Multivariate Analysis	A set of techniques used when variation in several variables are studied simultaneously. In statistics, multivariate analysis is interpreted as any analytic method that allows simultaneous study of two or more dependent variables.	Analysis, Multivariate,Multivariate Analyses