Mothers without Companionship During Childbirth: An Analysis within the Millennium Cohort Study Export

@article{citeulike:3787663, citeulike-article-id = {3787663}, comment = {This is a provocative example of how the framing of research questions indicate casual relationships. For example, most researchers studying preterm retroactively analyze birth records and conclude that race or ethnicity was casually related to the occurrence of preterm birth. This article reverses that line of inference by changing the unit of analysis and asks: What happens to mothers who are unaccompanied during their pregnancy and delivery? Preterm birth then becomes a the result, not the a priori factual occurrence.}, keywords = {birth, preterm, social, support}, posted-at = {2008-12-14 15:58:51}, priority = {0}, title = {Mothers without Companionship During Childbirth: An Analysis within the Millennium Cohort Study} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3787663 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3787663 TI - Mothers without Companionship During Childbirth: An Analysis within the Millennium Cohort Study KW - birth KW - preterm KW - social KW - support N1 - This is a provocative example of how the framing of research questions indicate casual relationships. For example, most researchers studying preterm retroactively analyze birth records and conclude that race or ethnicity was casually related to the occurrence of preterm birth. This article reverses that line of inference by changing the unit of analysis and asks: What happens to mothers who are unaccompanied during their pregnancy and delivery? Preterm birth then becomes a the result, not the a priori factual occurrence. ER -