Stroke health and risk education (share) pilot project: Feasibility and need for church-based stroke health promotion in a bi-ethnic community

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1583-1585

  Zahuranec, Darin B ^a   Morgenstern, Lewis B ^a,b   Garcia, Nelda M ^a   Conley, Kathleen M ^d   Lisabeth, Lynda D ^a,b   Rank, Grace S ^e   Smith, Melinda A ^a   Meurer, William J ^a   Resnicow, Ken ^c   Brown, Devin L ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Epidemiology ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Diocese of Corpus Christi   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular accident; Hypertension; Medicine; Mexican Americans; Religion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; STROKE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COMMUNITY CARE; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC; LETTER; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CATHOLICISM; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TEXAS;

EID: 44449116260     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.503557     Document Type: Article

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