Low fertility awareness in United States reproductive-aged women and medical trainees: creation and validation of the Fertility & Infertility Treatment Knowledge Score (FIT-KS)

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 711-717

  Kudesia, Rashmi ^a   Chernyak, Elizabeth ^a   McAvey, Beth ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility; fertility awareness; gynecology; infertility; medical education

Indexed keywords

LUBRICATING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILITY AND INFERTILITY TREATMENT KNOWLEDGE SCORE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL STUDENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GYNECOLOGY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRICS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRICS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RESEARCH DESIGN; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85029007448     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2017.07.1158     Document Type: Article

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