Knowledge attitudes, beliefs, and blood pressure control in a community-based sample in Ghana

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 748-752

  Spencer, Jacqueline ^a,c   Phillips, Erica ^a   Ogedegbe, Gbenga ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Beliefs; Ghana; Hyperstension; Knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GHANA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SMOKING;

EID: 27844439417     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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