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Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the German version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R)
Lara Seefeld1,2,3, Amera Mojahed4, Colin R Martin5
1Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
BMC Public Health
|November 22, 2025
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