Does childbirth after fertility treatment influence sense of coherence? A longitudinal study of 1,934 men and women

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1215-1221

  Habroe, Maria ^a,b   Schmidt, Lone ^a   Holstein, Bjørn Evald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ART; Clinical epidemiology; Infertility; Prospective study; Sense of coherence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SENSE OF COHERENCE;

EID: 34648832889     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016340701619258     Document Type: Article

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