Comparing the attitudes of urban and rural Iranian women toward menopause

Maturitas

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 113-121

  Khademi, S ^a   Cooke, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Iranian women; Menopause; Menopause attitude

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IRAN; MENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN POPULATION; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

IRANIA;

EID: 0141957323     PISSN: 03785122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5122(03)00182-8     Document Type: Article

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