Validating signals of ovulation: Do women who think they know, really know?

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 310-320

  Sievert, Lynnette Leidy ^a   Dubois, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BASAL BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREEZING; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LIBIDO; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOOD; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OVULATION; OVULATION DETECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX MUCUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; OVULATION; OVULATION DETECTION; OVULATION PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 20144365298     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20317     Document Type: Article

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