Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 6 , Pages 2099-2106 , December 2008

Infertility knowledge and attitudes in urban high school students

  • Susan Quach, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Create IVF Program, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • The Sunnybrook and Women's College Hospital Fertility Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Susan Quach, M.Sc., Sunnybrook and Women's College Hospital Fertility Centre, 790 Bay Street, Suite 1100, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1N8 (FAX: 416-323-7334).
    • ,
  • Clifford Librach, M.D., F.R.C.S.(C.), F.A.C.O.G.(R.E.I.)

      Affiliations

    • Create IVF Program, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • The Sunnybrook and Women's College Hospital Fertility Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Received 21 June 2007 ,Revised 8 October 2007 ,Accepted 8 October 2007.

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 Supported by unrestricted research grants from Serono Canada (Mississauga, ON, Canada), Ferring Fertility, (North York, ON, Canada), and Organon Canada.

 Presented orally at the University of Toronto Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Research Day, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 4, 2007. Also presented as a poster at the International Union of Health Promotion and Education, Vancouver BC, Canada, June 11, 2007.

PII: S0015-0282(07)03877-0

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.10.024

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