Assessing attitudes about emergency contraception among urban, minority adolescent girls: an In-depth interview study

Pediatrics

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Mollen, Cynthia J ^a,b   Barg, Frances K ^a   Hayes, Katie L ^a   Gotcsik, Marah ^a   Blades, Nakeisha M ^a   Schwarz, Donald F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent pregnancy; Contraception; Emergency department; Interviews; Urban

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; EMERGENCY WARD; FAMILY; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MINORITY GROUP; NORMAL HUMAN; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; URBAN POPULATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH EDUCATION; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTION, POSTCOITAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MINORITY GROUPS; PENNSYLVANIA; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 49849094664     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-0009     Document Type: Article

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