Contraception
Volume 79, Issue 2 , Pages 98-104 , February 2009

Analysis why nulliparous women over age 33 wish to use contraception

  • Sara Proudfoot

      Affiliations

    • NHS Lothian Family Planning and Well Woman Service, Edinburgh EH4 1NL, Scotland, UK
    • ,
  • Kaye Wellings

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health and Policy, University of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
    • ,
  • Anna Glasier

      Affiliations

    • NHS Lothian Family Planning and Well Woman Service, Edinburgh EH4 1NL, Scotland, UK
    • Department of Public Health and Policy, University of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
    • University of Edinburgh School of Clinical Science and Community Health, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, Scotland, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. NHS Lothian Family Planning and Well Woman Service, Edinburgh EH4 1NL, Scotland, UK. Tel.: +44 1313430912; fax: +44 1313322931.

Received 11 August 2008 ,Revised 25 August 2008 ,Accepted 4 September 2008.

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☆ Conflict of interest: None of the authors have any conflict of interest with this work.

☆☆ This study was funded by NHS Lothian.

PII: S0010-7824(08)00460-5

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.09.005

Contraception
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