Strategies for salivary cortisol collection and analysis in research with children

Applied Nursing Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 95-101

  Hanrahan, Kirsten ^a   McCarthy, Ann Marie ^a   Kleiber, Charmaine ^a   Lutgendorf, Susan ^b,c   Tsalikian, Eva ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DRUG EFFECT; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; PARENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDIATRIC NURSING; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SALIVA; SECRETION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; TIME;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; PARENTS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDIATRIC NURSING; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SALIVA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STRESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646674309     PISSN: 08971897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnr.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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