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‘I stayed with my illness’: a grounded theory study of health seeking behaviour and treatment pathways of patients with obstetric fistula in Kenya

BACKGROUND: Obstetric fistula classic symptoms of faecal and urinary incontinence cause women to live with social stigma, isolation, psychological trauma and lose their source of livelihoods. There is a paucity of studies on the health seeking behaviour trajectories of women with fistula illness alt...

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Autores principales: Khisa, Anne M., Omoni, Grace M., Nyamongo, Isaac K., Spitzer, Rachel F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5622500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28962566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-017-0451-6