Women's attitudes and expectations regarding gynaecological examination

Midwifery

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 500-508

  Yanikkerem, Emre ^a   Özdemir, Meral ^c   Bingol, Hilal ^a   Tatar, Ayşe ^b   Karadeniz, Gülten ^a  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Manisa Maternal and Child Hospital   (Turkey)

^c Recepli Health Village Clinic   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Feelings of women; Gynaecologic examination; Pelvic examination; Women expectations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UTILIZATION REVIEW; VAGINA SMEAR; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TURKEY; VAGINAL SMEARS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69949084609     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2007.08.006     Document Type: Article

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