Young pregnant women's views on the acceptability of screening for chlamydia as part of routine antenatal care

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bilardi, Jade E ^a   De Guingand, Deborah L ^b   Temple Smith, Meredith J ^c   Garland, Suzanne ^c,d   Fairley, Christopher K ^a,b   Grover, Sonia ^e   Wallace, Euan ^e   Hocking, Jane S ^a   Tabrizi, Sepehr ^c,d   Pirotta, Marie ^c   Chen, Marcus Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MELBOURNE SEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; VICTORIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955707028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-505     Document Type: Article

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