Examination of factor structure of the cognitive representations of hypertension scale for ethnic equivalence

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-47

  Scisney Matlock, Margaret ^a   Watkins, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive Representations; Ethnicity; Hypertension Scales; Measurement

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CARE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CARE;

EID: 0033452747     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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