Coping with infertility among Kuwaiti women: Cultural perspectives

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 294-300

  Fido, Abdullahi ^a   Zahid, Muhammad Ajmal ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; NUTRITION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RATING SCALE; RELIGION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUPERSTITION; TENSION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WITCHCRAFT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY; CULTURE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; KUWAIT; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 12344288272     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764004050334     Document Type: Article

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