Building resilience: A preliminary exploration of women's perceptions of the use of acupuncture as an adjunct to In Vitro Fertilisation

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  de Lacey, Sheryl ^a   Smith, Caroline A ^b   Paterson, Charlotte ^c  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF CONCEPT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 73449111582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-9-50     Document Type: Article

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