Quality of life in women with infertility via the FertiQoL and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scales

Nursing and Health Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 84-89

  Kahyaoglu Sut, Hatice ^a   Balkanli Kaplan, Petek ^b  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ALTINBAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; FertiQoL; Infertility; Quality of life; Turkish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924556700     PISSN: 14410745     EISSN: 14422018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nhs.12167     Document Type: Article

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