Applied Nursing Research
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 2-10, February 2010

Promoting self-care and secondary prevention in women's health: A study to test the accuracy of a home self-test system for bacterial vaginosis☆

  • Ellis Quinn Youngkin, PhD, RNC, WHCNP, ARNP

      Affiliations

    • Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA
    • Virginia Commonwealth University-Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA 23219, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA. Tel.: +1 352 391 9488.
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  • Pamela Brinker Lester, DNS, FNP-BC, ARNP

      Affiliations

    • Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA

Received 19 December 2006; received in revised form 13 February 2008; accepted 19 February 2008. published online 15 January 2009.

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☆ This study was funded by a Christine E. Lynn Research Initiative Grant from the Florida Atlantic University Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing. Select equipment and medication for self-screening and for verifying diagnosis and subsequent treatment of BV of participants were provided by 3M Company.

PII: S0897-1897(08)00007-4

doi:10.1016/j.apnr.2008.02.002

Applied Nursing Research
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 2-10, February 2010

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