Predictors of decision delay to seeking health care among jordanians with acute myocardial infarction

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 260-267

  Khraim, Fadi M ^a   Scherer, Yvonne K ^b   Dorn, Joan M ^b   Carey, Mary G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Decision delay; Health care seeking behavior; Jordan; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; JORDAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; JORDAN; MEN; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WOMEN;

EID: 69549097726     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2009.01287.x     Document Type: Article

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