Children and medicines: What they want to know and how they want to learn

Journal of Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 38-52

  Menacker, Fay ^a   Aramburuzabala, Pilar ^b   Minian, Nadia ^c   Bush, Patricia J ^a   Bibace, Roger ^d  

^a UNITED STATES PHARMACOPEIA   (United States)

^b Universidad SEK School of Psychology   (Spain)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Drugs; Focus groups; Health beliefs; Health education; Medicine; U.S.A.

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; DRUG PREFERENCE; DRUG USE; ETHNOLOGY; EXPERIENCE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PATIENT EDUCATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032793511     PISSN: 02810662     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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