Lessons Learned from Urban Latinas with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 255-265

  Adams, Carmen Rivera ^a  

^a QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hispanic; Latina; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; urban

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROL; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; DIET; EMOTION; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; MORBIDITY; PHENOMENOLOGY; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANGER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GRIEF; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ENGLAND; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL VALUES; URBAN HEALTH; WOMEN;

EID: 0042205887     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: 15527832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659603014003012     Document Type: Article

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