Contraception
Volume 77, Issue 1 , Pages 44-49 , January 2008

A qualitative study of barriers to postpartum sterilization and women's attitudes toward unfulfilled sterilization requests

  • Melissa Gilliam

      Affiliations

    • Section of Family Planning, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 773 834 0840; fax: +1 773 702 0840.
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  • Shawna D. Davis

      Affiliations

    • Section of Family Planning, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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  • Amy Berlin

      Affiliations

    • Section of Family Planning, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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  • Nikki B. Zite

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Box U-27, Knoxville, TN 37920, USA

Received 16 April 2007 ,Revised 5 September 2007 ,Accepted 18 September 2007.

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☆ This study is supported by an anonymous foundation. Dr. Gilliam is supported by grant #5K23-HD042614-02 from The National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Child Health and Development.

PII: S0010-7824(07)00427-1

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2007.09.011

Contraception
Volume 77, Issue 1 , Pages 44-49 , January 2008

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