Using Focus Groups to Identify Psychosocial Issues of Urban Black Individuals with Diabetes

Diabetes Educator

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 28-33

  Anderson, Robert M ^a   Barr, Patricia A ^a   Edwards, Gloria J ^b   Funnell, Martha M ^b   Fitzgerald, James T ^a   Wisdom, Kimberlydawn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC DIET; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC DIET; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0029705447     PISSN: 01457217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014572179602200104     Document Type: Article

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