To keep or not to keep? Decision making in adolescent pregnancies in Jamestown, Ghana

Luchuo Engelbert Bain; Marjolein B. M. Zweekhorst; Mary Amoakoh-Coleman; Seda Muftugil-Yalcin; Abejirinde Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade; Renaud Becquet; Tjard de Cock Buning

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0221789

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To keep or not to keep? Decision making in adolescent pregnancies in Jamestown, Ghana

Luchuo Engelbert Bain ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: e.b.luchuo@vu.nl

Affiliations Athena Institute for Research on Innovation and Communication in Health and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, University of Bordeaux, Inserm, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, Team IDLIC, Bordeaux, France

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6006-2698

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Marjolein B. M. Zweekhorst,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Athena Institute for Research on Innovation and Communication in Health and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Mary Amoakoh-Coleman,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
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Seda Muftugil-Yalcin,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Athena Institute for Research on Innovation and Communication in Health and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Abejirinde Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade,

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Independent Researcher, HealthPro Research and Consultancy, Toronto, Canada
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Renaud Becquet,

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Bordeaux, Inserm, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, Team IDLIC, Bordeaux, France
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Tjard de Cock Buning

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Athena Institute for Research on Innovation and Communication in Health and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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To keep or not to keep? Decision making in adolescent pregnancies in Jamestown, Ghana

Luchuo Engelbert Bain,
Marjolein B. M. Zweekhorst,
Mary Amoakoh-Coleman,
Seda Muftugil-Yalcin,
Abejirinde Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade,
Renaud Becquet,
Tjard de Cock Buning

Published: September 4, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221789

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