Cross-cultural validation of the hill-bone compliance to high blood pressure therapy scale in a South African, primary healthcare setting

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 286-291

  Lambert, Estelle Victoria ^a,b   Steyn, Krisela ^a   Stender, Stacy ^c   Everage, Nicholas ^c   Fourie, Jean M ^a   Hill, Martha ^c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BP treatment; Compliance; High blood pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIETARY INTAKE; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETER; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALT INTAKE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUTH AFRICA; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 33744986022     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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