Children's understanding of the symptoms of AIDS

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 403-414

  Shoemaker, Mary R ^a   Schonfeld, David J ^a,b   O'Hare, Linda L ^a   Showalter, Donald R ^c   Cicchetti, Domenic V ^b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CANCER; CHILD; COMMON COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMON COLD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0029861852     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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