Nursing students' self-reported knowledge of genetics and genetic education

Public Health Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 225-232

  Kiray Vural, Bilgin ^a   Tomatir, Ayşe Gaye ^b   Kuzu Kurban, Nevin ^a   Taşpinar, Ayten ^c  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^c CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Genetics; Nursing education; Nursing students; Turkey

Indexed keywords

RHESUS ANTIGEN;

ACHONDROPLASIA; ALBINISM; ALKAPTONURIA; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRACHYDACTYLY; BREAST CANCER; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; COLON CANCER; COLOR BLINDNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GALACTOSEMIA; GAUCHER DISEASE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HEMOPHILIA; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INHERITANCE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL GENETICS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NURSING STUDENT; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; PHENYLKETONURIA; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SPINA BIFIDA; TAY SACHS DISEASE; THALASSEMIA; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; TURNER SYNDROME; X CHROMOSOME LINKED MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIC MOUSE; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM; ADULT; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NURSING EDUCATION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, NURSING; FEMALE; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MALE; STUDENTS, NURSING; TURKEY;

EID: 67449104071     PISSN: 16624246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000197972     Document Type: Article

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