Self-efficacy and health behaviors;Autoeficacia y conductas de salud

Ciencia y Enfermeria

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-15

  Medina, Cecilia Olivari ^a   Medina, Eugenia Urra ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL MAULE   (Chile)

^b Académica Universidad de La Serena

Author keywords

Exercise; Health behaviours; Management of pain; Nursing; Self efficacy; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548719224     PISSN: 07172079     EISSN: 07179553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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