Undergraduate nursing students' attitudes towards smoking health promotion

Nursing and Health Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 164-174

  McCann, Terence V ^a   Clark, Eileen ^b   Rowe, Kathy ^c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Health promotion; Nursing students; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSING EDUCATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; STUDENTS, NURSING; VICTORIA;

EID: 28944433294     PISSN: 14410745     EISSN: 14422018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2018.2005.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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