Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 316-322 , April 2010

Pregnancy coercion, intimate partner violence and unintended pregnancy

  • Elizabeth Miller

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 916 734 4689; fax: +1 916 456 2236.
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  • Michele R. Decker

      Affiliations

    • Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115-6096, USA
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  • Heather L. McCauley

      Affiliations

    • Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115-6096, USA
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  • Daniel J. Tancredi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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  • Rebecca R. Levenson

      Affiliations

    • Family Violence Prevention Fund, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
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  • Jeffrey Waldman

      Affiliations

    • Planned Parenthood Shasta Diablo Affiliate, Concord, CA 94520-2309, USA
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  • Phyllis Schoenwald

      Affiliations

    • Planned Parenthood Shasta Diablo Affiliate, Concord, CA 94520-2309, USA
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  • Jay G. Silverman

      Affiliations

    • Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115-6096, USA

Received 24 September 2009 ,Revised 3 December 2009 ,Accepted 4 December 2009.

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☆ Funding sources for this study are the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R21 HD057814-02 to Miller and Silverman); UC Davis Health System Research Award to Miller; and Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health award to Miller (BIRCWH, K12 HD051958; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Office of Research on Women's Health, Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institute of Aging).

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doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.12.004

Contraception
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