Sexual health difficulties in a population-based sample of croatian women aged 18-35 and the effects of the dual (Career and Motherhood) role

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1314-1321

  Štulhofer, Aleksandar ^a   Kuljanić, Karin ^b   Buzina, Daška Štulhofer ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b KBC RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^c KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Employment; Female Sexual Difficulties; Parenthood; Sexual Satisfaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOACTIVE SEXUAL DESIRE DISORDER; LUBRICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ORGASM DISORDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; WELLBEING;

EID: 79955148438     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.02100.x     Document Type: Article

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