Relationships of religion and spirituality to glycemic control in black women with type 2 diabetes

Nursing Research

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 331-339

  Newlin, Kelley ^a   Melkus, Gail D ^b   Tappen, Ruth ^a   Chyun, Deborah ^c   Koenig, Harold G ^d  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Glycemic control; Religion; Spirituality; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SELF CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW ENGLAND; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPIRITUALITY; WOMEN;

EID: 53049094861     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NNR.0000313497.10154.66     Document Type: Article

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