Sexual and reproductive health knowledge, contraception uptake, and factors associated with unmet need for modern contraception among adolescent female sex workers in China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lim, Megan S C ^a,c   Zhang, Xu Dong ^b   Kennedy, Elissa ^a,c   Li, Yan ^d   Yang, Yin ^e   Li, Lin ^f   Li, Yun Xia ^f   Temmerman, Marleen ^b   Luchters, Stanley ^a,b,c  

^a BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Third People's Hospital of Kunming   (China)

^f Kunming Maternal and Child Health Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONDOM USE; CONTRACEPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL HEALTH; SINGLE WOMAN; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; CONTRACEPTION; INDUCED ABORTION; PREGNANCY; SEX WORKER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; CHINA; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; SEX WORKERS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922031919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115435     Document Type: Article

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