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The development of an anxiety assessment scale for pregnant women in labor

Gülgün Durat, Gümrah D. Çulhacik, Özlem Doğu, Zekiye Turan, Işık Atasoy and Eylem Toker
Saudi Medical Journal June 2018, 39 (6) 609-614; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.6.22266
Gülgün Durat
From the Faculty of Health Science (Durat, Çulhacik, Doğu, Turan, Atasoy), Sakarya University, Sakarya and from the Kahramanmaraş School of Health (Toker), Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
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Gümrah D. Çulhacik
From the Faculty of Health Science (Durat, Çulhacik, Doğu, Turan, Atasoy), Sakarya University, Sakarya and from the Kahramanmaraş School of Health (Toker), Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
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Özlem Doğu
From the Faculty of Health Science (Durat, Çulhacik, Doğu, Turan, Atasoy), Sakarya University, Sakarya and from the Kahramanmaraş School of Health (Toker), Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
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Zekiye Turan
From the Faculty of Health Science (Durat, Çulhacik, Doğu, Turan, Atasoy), Sakarya University, Sakarya and from the Kahramanmaraş School of Health (Toker), Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
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Işık Atasoy
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Eylem Toker
From the Faculty of Health Science (Durat, Çulhacik, Doğu, Turan, Atasoy), Sakarya University, Sakarya and from the Kahramanmaraş School of Health (Toker), Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
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Saudi Medical Journal Jun 2018, 39 (6) 609-614; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2018.6.22266

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