Establishing reliability and validity of an instrument measuring Jordanian Muslim women's contraceptive beliefs

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 870-881

  Kridli, Suha Al Oballi ^a   Libbus, Kay ^b  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTRACEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JORDAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CONTRACEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; ISLAM; JORDAN; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0036885916     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330290112371     Document Type: Review

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