Adolescents' struggles with swallowing tablets: Barriers, strategies and learning

Pharmacy World and Science

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-69

  Hansen, Dana Lee ^a   Tulinius, Ditte ^a   Hansen, Ebba Holme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Compliance; Denmark; Learning by doing; Medication use; Oral medications; Swallowing; Taste; User perspective

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHEWABLE TABLET; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SWALLOWING; TABLET; TASTE; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; DEGLUTITION; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TABLETS;

EID: 36448968573     PISSN: 09281231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11096-007-9142-y     Document Type: Article

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