Military women's attitudes toward menstruation and menstrual suppression in relation to the deployed environment: Development and testing of the MWATMS-9 (short form)

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 287-293

  Trego, Lori L ^a   Jordan, Patricia J ^b  

^a TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Pacific Telehealth and Technology Hui   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; MENSTRUAL ATTITUDE QUESTIONNAIRE; MENSTRUAL SUPPRESSION; MENSTRUATION; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MILITARY WOMEN'S ATTITUDES TOWARDS MENSTRUAL SUPPRESSION SCALE; PATIENT GUIDANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SOLDIER; STRESS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MENSTRUATION; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OVULATION INHIBITION; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954176763     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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