Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 3 , Pages 249-253 , March 2010

Perceived competence and contraceptive use during adolescence

  • Jennifer B. Hillman

      Affiliations

    • Division of Adolescent Medicine, MLC 4000, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 513 636 3539; fax: +1 513 636 1129.
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  • Sonya Negriff

      Affiliations

    • School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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  • Lorah D. Dorn

      Affiliations

    • Division of Adolescent Medicine, MLC 4000, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA

Received 10 August 2009 ,Revised 2 November 2009 ,Accepted 5 November 2009.

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☆ This research was supported by National Institute of Drug Abuse R01 DA016402; in part by the USPHS Grant # UL1RR026314 from the National Center for Research Resources, NIH; and by the National Institute of Health/Office of Research on Women's Health 1K12 HD051953.

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doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.11.001

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