The Experience of Being an Asthma Amigo in a Program to Decrease Asthma Episodes in Hispanic Children

Journal of Pediatric Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 364-371

  Lobar, Sandra ^a,b   Brooten, Dorothy ^a,b   Youngblut, JoAnne M ^a,b   Hernandez, Laura ^a,b   Herrera Perdigon, Jennifer ^a,b   Royal, Scott ^a,b   Robins, Christine ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RIT International   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Focus group process evaluation; Train the trainer educational model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEDIATRIC NURSING; PEER GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF HELP; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; FAMILY; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FOCUS GROUPS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PEDIATRIC NURSING; PEER GROUP; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF-HELP GROUPS;

EID: 51549101996     PISSN: 08825963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedn.2007.12.005     Document Type: Article

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