"I should live and finish it": A qualitative inquiry into Turkish women's menopause experience

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cifcili, Serap Y ^a   Akman, Mehmet ^a   Demirkol, Abdullah ^b   Unalan, Pemra C ^a   Vermeire, Etienne ^c  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; TURKEY;

EID: 60849088584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-10-2     Document Type: Article

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