Too much like school: social class, age, marital status and attendance/non-attendance at antenatal classes.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate patterns of attendance and non-attendance at National Health Service antenatal classes of first-time mothers in the indigenous white population of a large northern city of the UK. DESIGN: Survey using questionnaires, and selected participants were then given an in-depth int...
| Publicado en: | Midwifery Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 139 - 146 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
1997 Sep
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