Transitional and health issues of adults with neural tube defects

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-70

  Nehring, Wendy M ^a   Faux, Sandra A ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Access to information; Adults with neural tube defects; Advocacy; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33645145046     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2006.00079.x     Document Type: Article

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