Does reading about stroke increase stroke knowledge? The impact of different print materials

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 207-215

  Mazor, Kathleen M ^a   Billings Gagliardi, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Health education; Patient education; Stroke prevention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; SAMPLING; SCIENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE;

EID: 0242468190     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-3991(02)00218-5     Document Type: Article

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