Attitudes towards termination of pregnancy among Hong Kong Chinese women attending prenatal diagnosis counselling clinic

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 546-551

  Leung, Tse Ngong ^a   Chau, Macy Mo Ching ^a   Chang, Joseph Jeremy ^a   Leung, Tak Yeung ^a   Fung, Tak Yuen ^a   Lau, Tze Kin ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese; Prenatal diagnosis; Termination of pregnancy; Women's attitude

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHINESE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FETUS MALFORMATION; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; TURNER SYNDROME;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 4043049435     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.950     Document Type: Article

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