Measuring unintended pregnancies in postpartum Iranian women: validation of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy
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Measuring unintended pregnancies in postpartum Iranian women: validation of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy.
Research suggests a relatively sizable rate of unintended pregnancies in some subgroups of Iranian women, but there is no concise, standard scale to measure the pregnancy intention of Iranian women. Therefore, the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP) were investigated. The Persian version of the LMUP was tested on randomly selected m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1020-3397
DOI: 10.26719/2015.21.8.572