Vaginal douching practice in Turkish women: Who is douching, and why?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 522-525

  Karaer, Abdullah ^a,b   Avsar, Ayşe Filiz ^a   Özkan, Övgü ^a   Bayir, Betül ^a   Sayan, Kürşat ^a  

^a Zekai Tahir Burak Woman Health Education Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Low birthweight infant; Preterm birth; Turkish women; Vaginal douching

Indexed keywords

SHAMPOO; SOAP; WATER;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINAL LAVAGE; VAGINITIS; YATES CONTINUITY CORRECTION; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TURKEY; VAGINAL DOUCHING;

EID: 33744995329     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2005.00490.x     Document Type: Article

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