Brazil Patient Knowledge Questionnaire (PKQ) and evaluation of disease-specific knowledge in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 521-528

  Jennings, Fábio ^a   Toffolo, Sandra ^a   de Assis, Marcos Renato ^a   Natour, Jamil ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Education; Patient's knowledge; Questionnaire; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BRAZIL PATIENT KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONNAIRE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BRAZIL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33845474466     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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