Feeling normal: Women's experiences of menopause after infertility

MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 195-200

  Olshansky, Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Infertility; Menopause; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ADULT; AGED; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERVIEW; MENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 19044368951     PISSN: 0361929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005721-200505000-00008     Document Type: Review

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