What aspects of periods are most bothersome for women reporting heavy menstrual bleeding? Community survey and qualitative study

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Santer, Miriam ^a   Wyke, Sally ^b   Warner, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; DYSMENORRHEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERMENORRHEA; INTERVIEW; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MOOD CHANGE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTAL MAIL; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; AGE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUATION; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34447286852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-7-8     Document Type: Article

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