Reproductive Attitudes and Behaviors in People With Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Trait: A Qualitative Interpretive Meta-Synthesis

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 757-779

  Smith, Marcella ^a   Aguirre, Regina T P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; qualitative interpretive meta synthesis; reproductive attitudes; sickle cell disease; sickle cell trait

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENETIC TESTING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867845500     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2012.693580     Document Type: Article

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