Health locus of control beliefs and smoking among male Kuwaiti government employees

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 137-145

  Badr, Hanan E ^a   Moody, P M ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYEE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KUWAIT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOBACCO;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; KUWAIT; LIFE STYLE; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEN; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33644595745     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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