Attitudes toward fertility and childbearing scale: an assessment of a new instrument for women who are not yet mothers in Sweden.

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Published in BMC Pregnancy Childbirth on October 28, 2013

Authors

Malin Söderberg1, Ingela Lundgren, Kyllike Christensson, Ingegerd Hildingsson

Author Affiliations

1: Institution of Reproductive Health, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institute, Retziusväg 13 A, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden. malin.soderberg@ki.se.

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