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Decision-making about seeking medical advice in an internet sample of women trying to get pregnant

Author(s) -

Laura Bunting,

Jacky Boivin

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

human reproduction

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.446

H-Index - 226

eISSN - 1460-2350

pISSN - 0268-1161

DOI - 10.1093/humrep/dem057

Subject(s) - fertility , psychosocial , medical advice , psychology , family medicine , infertility , fertility clinic , sample (material) , the internet , medicine , social psychology , pregnancy , psychiatry , population , computer science , chemistry , biology , world wide web , genetics , environmental health , chromatography

In light of the near universal desire to become a parent one would expect most people to seek medical advice if they were experiencing difficulties conceiving. Yet less than 55% do so and we sought to understand more about this paradox by comparing the psychosocial profile and decision-making of women not yet engaged in the medical process to that of those who had consulted.

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