Participant Recruitment to a Randomized Trial of a Community-Based Behavioral Intervention for Pre- and Interconceptional Women. Findings From the Central Pennsylvania Women's Health Study

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 217-224

  Velott, Diana L ^a   Baker, Sara A ^a   Hillemeier, Marianne M ^b   Weisman, Carol S ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONCEPTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; ORGANIZATION; POVERTY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL WELFARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PENNSYLVANIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 42949086574     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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