Racial differences in hypertension knowledge: Effects of differential item functioning

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-27

  Ayotte, Brian J ^a   Trivedi, Ranak ^b   Bosworth, Hayden B ^a,b  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential; Disparities; Hypertension knowledge; Item functioning

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249128528     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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