Motives for choosing growth-enhancing hormone treatment in adolescents with idiopathic short stature: A questionnaire and structured interview study

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Visser van Balen, Hanneke ^a,b   Geenen, Rinie ^b   Kamp, Gerdine A ^c   Huisman, Jaap ^d   Wit, Jan M ^e   Sinnema, Gerben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Gooi Noord Hospital   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; TRIPTORELIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BODY HEIGHT; BOY; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GIRL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTERVIEW; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; JOB FINDING; MALE; PARENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBERTY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT STATURE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPOUSE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH DISORDER; INTELLIGENCE; MOTIVATION; SELF CONCEPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MOTIVATION; PARENTS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 26444547677     PISSN: 14712431     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-5-15     Document Type: Article

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