The development and evaluation of the hypertension temporal orientation (HTO) scale

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-54

  Brown, Carolyn M ^a   Segal, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Factor analysis; Hypertension; Present and or future orientation; Temporal orientation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; NEGRO; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FLORIDA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIFE STYLE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031433980     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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