Building explanatory model of asthma-specific quality of life - An analysis of patients enrolled in an asthma disease management program

Taiwan Journal of Public Health

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 125-134

  Lo, Chung Ting ^a   Weng, Hui Cning ^a  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asthma; Disease management program; Disease related quality of life; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAMPLE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELF CARE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TAIWAN;

EID: 33745593999     PISSN: 10232141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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