Risk perception and its association with cardiac risk and health behaviors among urban minority adults: The Bronx coronary risk perception study

American Journal of Health Promotion

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 339-342

  Barnhart, Janice M ^a   Wright, Natania D ^a   Freeman, Katherine ^a   Silagy, Frank ^a   Correa, Nereida ^a   Walker, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

And race ethnicity; Behavior change; Coronary heart disease; Descriptive; Design: Cross sectional; Economic income; Health behaviors; Health focus: Intellectual health (risk perception); Minorities; Outcome: Health behaviors; Prevention research. Manuscript format: Research; Research purpose: Instrument development; Risk perception; Setting: Clinical health care; Strategy: Education; Target population circumstances: Geographic locale; Target population: Adults

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW YORK CITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 70350742179     PISSN: 08901171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4278/ajhp.07072574     Document Type: Article

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