Study Ventegodt (1997): study DK 1993

Public

31-33 aged, born at the university hospital, Denmark, 1993

Sample

Respondents

N = 4626

Non Response

36%

Assessment

Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
Data were taken from the medical files of mothers and their babies

Correlate

Authors's Label

Birth complications when born

Our Classification

Remarks

only absolute frequencies are given

Distribution

N 1:1645,   2b:116,   2c:44,   2d:28,   2e:11,   2f:483   2g:21,   2h:4,   2i:535,   2j:13,   2k:31,   2l:10,   2m:212,   2n:3985,   2o:124,   2p:4,   2q:211,   2r:312,   2s:20,   2t:14,   2u:274

Operationalization

Birth complications when born as reported in medical file
1:  no complications reported
2:  one of the following complications:
    2b: ruptured uterus
    2c: contracted pelvis
    2d: abruption of placenta
    2e: umbilical cord
    2f: other ambillical cord complications
    2g: preclampsia, severe degree
    2h: eclampsia
    2i: membrane rupture, during birth
    2j: ruptured cervix
    2k: puerperal fever
    2l: stormy labor
    2m: stimulation of labor because of secondary weak labor (orifice distended)
    2n: heart sound unaffected
    2o: heart sound unaffected, no intervention
    2p: heart sound affected, corrects itself after anesthesia
    2q: heart sound affected, delivered
    2r: discolored amniotic fluid
    2s: thick cloudy amniotic fluid
    2t: ill-smelling amniotic fluid
    2u: other

Observed Relation with Happiness