Fear of childbirth in nulliparous and multiparous women: a population‐based analysis of all singleton births in Finland in 1997–2010

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  BJOG: an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

• Publication date

  2014-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1111/1471-0528.12599PMID 24494605
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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