Psychosocial health of infertile ghanaian women and their infertility beliefs

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 132-140

  Naab, Florence ^a   Brown, Roger ^b   Heidrich, Susan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Infertility; Psychosocial; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GHANA; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STIGMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84878793598     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jnu.12013     Document Type: Article

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