Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 5 , Pages 335-343, September 2009

Violence in the Lives of Women in Italy Who Have an Elective Abortion

  • Patrizia Romito, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Prof. Patrizia Romito, Department of Psychology, University of Trieste, via S. Anastasio 12, 34100 Trieste, Italy; Phone: 0039 040 558 2772; Fax: 0404528022.
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  • Vicenta Escribà-Agüir, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Public Health Research, Valencia, Spain
    • CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain
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  • Laura Pomicino, MA

      Affiliations

    • University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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  • Chiara Lucchetta, MA

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Maternal and Child Health- IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy
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  • Federica Scrimin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Maternal and Child Health- IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy
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  • Janet Molzan Turan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California

Received 1 March 2009; received in revised form 16 July 2009; accepted 16 July 2009.

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 Supported by a grant from the Istituto di Ricovero e Cura Burlo Garofolo, Trieste. Janet Molzan Turan's work on this article was also supported, in part, by grant # K01MH081777 from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

PII: S1049-3867(09)00072-3

doi:10.1016/j.whi.2009.07.004

Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 5 , Pages 335-343, September 2009