Pregnancy scares and subsequent unintended pregnancy
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Pregnancy scares and subsequent unintended pregnancy.
BACKGROUND A substantial number of young women experience pregnancy scares - thinking they might be pregnant, and later discovering that they are not. Although pregnancy scares are distressing events, little is known about who experiences them and whether they are important to our understanding of unintended pregnancy. OBJECTIVE We describe the young women who experience pregnancy scares, and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demographic Research
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1435-9871
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2014.31.40