Deciding about sterilisation: Perspectives from women with an intellectual disability and their families in Taiwan

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-74

  Chou, Y ^a   Lu, Z ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision making; Hysterectomy; Intellectual disability; Sterilisation; Taiwan; Tubal ligation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FEMALE STERILIZATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIED WOMAN; MENSTRUATION; PATIENT AUTONOMY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUALITY; TAIWAN; UTERINE TUBE LIGATION; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; ATTITUDE; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DECISION MAKING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUALITY; STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE; TAIWAN;

EID: 78650191508     PISSN: 09642633     EISSN: 13652788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2010.01347.x     Document Type: Article

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