Internet message boards for pregnancy loss: Who's on-line and why?

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gold, Katherine J ^a   Boggs, Martha E ^a   Mugisha, Emeline ^a   Palladino, Christie Lancaster ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIVACY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; SUPPORT GROUP; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMMUNICATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; INTERNET; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STILLBIRTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83655170677     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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