Contraceptive usage among Jamaican women with sickle cell disease

Contraception

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 474-478

  Knight Madden, Jennifer ^a   Barton Gooden, Antoinette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Cohort; Contraceptives; Myths; Pregnancy; Sickle

Indexed keywords

MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JAMAICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA;

ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CONDOMS; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; JAMAICA; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349764470     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.05.121     Document Type: Article

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