Knowledge of stroke among stroke patients and their relatives in Northwest India

Neurology India

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 152-156

  Pandian, Jeyaraj ^a,c   Kalra, Guneet ^a   Jaison, Ashish ^a   Deepak, Sukhbinder ^a   Shamsher, Shivali ^a   Singh, Yashpal ^a   Abraham, George ^b  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Awareness; India; Knowledge; Patients; Risk factor; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELATIVE; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; STROKE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33745739040     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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