Testing an intervention to promote children's adherence to asthma self-management

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 133-140

  Burkhart, Patricia V ^a,b   Rayens, Mary Kay ^b   Oakley, Marsha G ^d   Abshire, Demetrius A ^b   Zhang, Mei ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c College of Nursing ^*

^d 517 College of Nursing ^*

Author keywords

Adherence; Asthma; Children; Cognitive social learning theory; Peak flow monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REINFORCEMENT; SELF CARE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPIROMETRY; UNITED STATES;

ASTHMA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CARE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; SPIROMETRY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 34547280874     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2007.00158.x     Document Type: Article

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