Women's voices about emergency contraceptive pills "over-the-counter": A Swedish perspective

Contraception

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 339-343

  Aneblom, Gunilla ^a   Larsson, Margareta ^a   Von Essen, Louise ^b   Tydén, Tanja ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Emergency contraception; Focus group; Non prescription; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BLEEDING; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EXPERIENCE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NAUSEA; PHARMACY; PILL; PRESCRIPTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SWEDEN; VERTIGO; VOICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, COMBINED; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; DRUGS, NON-PRESCRIPTION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES; SWEDEN;

EID: 0036850589     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(02)00367-0     Document Type: Article

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