The fertility quality of life (FertiQoL) questionnaire in Taiwanese infertilecouples

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 204-209

  Hsu, Pei Yang ^a   Lin, Ming Wei ^b   Hwang, Jiann Loung ^c,d   Lee, Maw Sheng ^e,f   Wu, Meng Hsing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c SHIN KONG WU HO SU MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

FertiQoL; Gender; Infertility; Quality of life; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILITY QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; TAIWAN;

FERTIQOL; GENDER; INFERTILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84881026410     PISSN: 10284559     EISSN: 18756263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tjog.2013.04.009     Document Type: Article

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