Helping parents to cope when their preschool children are acutely ill

BMJ

Volumn 314, Issue 7077, 1997, Pages 373-

  Impicciatore, Piero ^a   Violante, Andrea ^a   Bonati, Maurizio ^a   Townsend, Joy ^b   Taylor, Fiona ^b   Clapp, Zoe ^b   Mckinnon, Morag ^c  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEVER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ITALY; MOTHER; NOTE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; FEVER; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; ITALY; MOTHERS; PATIENT EDUCATION;

EID: 0039325707     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.314.7077.373a     Document Type: Letter

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