Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 5 , Pages 275-282 , September 2006

Variation and predictors of vaginal douching behavior

  • Dawn P. Misra, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Dawn P. Misra, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1420 Washington Heights, M5015, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
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  • Britton Trabert, MS, MSPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • ,
  • Shelly Atherly-Trim, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Received 23 May 2005 ,Revised 24 January 2006 ,Accepted 3 March 2006.

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PII: S1049-3867(06)00046-6

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2006.03.005

Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 5 , Pages 275-282 , September 2006

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