Contraception
Volume 83, Issue 3 , Pages 274-280 , March 2011

A family planning clinic partner violence intervention to reduce risk associated with reproductive coercion

  • Elizabeth Miller

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, UC Davis School of Medicine, Ticon II, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 916 7345571; fax: +1 916 456 2236.
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  • Michele R. Decker

      Affiliations

    • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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  • Heather L. McCauley

      Affiliations

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

      Affiliations

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

      Affiliations

    • Family Violence Prevention Fund, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
    • ,
  • 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 26 March 2010 ,Revised 14 July 2010 ,Accepted 14 July 2010.

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☆ Funding for this study was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R21 HD057814-02 to E. Miller and J.G. Silverman), UC Davis Health System Research Award to E. Miller and Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health award to E. 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.2010.07.013

Contraception
Volume 83, Issue 3 , Pages 274-280 , March 2011

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