Measuring the Effectiveness of Psychosocial Interventions in Pregnancy
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- screening for-phychosocial-risk-factors
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
- Vol. 8 (S1) , 129-138
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300013027
Abstract
Questions about the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in pregnancy are important in any overall evaluation of antenatal care. This article reviews the evidence as to the positive benefit on a range of pregnancy outcomes provided by 35 published and unpublished randomized controlled trials of psychosocial interventions.Keywords
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