Psychological consequences of abortion among the post abortion care seeking women in tehran

Iranian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-36

  Pourreza, Abolghasem ^a   Batebi, Aziz ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Abortion; Pregnancy complications; Psychology; Women health

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051944370     PISSN: 17354587     EISSN: 20082215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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