Knowledge, practices, and barriers concerning the use of emergency contraception among women of reproductive age at a university hospital of Aydin, Turkey

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 282, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 285-292

  Aksu, Hilmiye ^a   Küçük, Mert ^b   Karaöz, Banu ^a   Ünay, Vesile ^a  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AMERICAN HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Barrier; Emergency contraception; Knowledge; Practice; The morning after pill; Turkey

Indexed keywords

POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRACEPTION, POSTCOITAL; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054092441     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-009-1267-x     Document Type: Article

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