Emergency contraception knowledge after a community education campaign

Contraception

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 366-371

  Gee, Rebekah E ^a,b,c   Delli Bovi, Laurent C ^b   Chuang, Cynthia H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community education; Contraceptive education; Emergency contraception; Knowledge disparities; Unintended pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCRIPTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS;

EID: 35349000607     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2007.07.007     Document Type: Article

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