Community blood donors' knowledge of anemia and design of a literacy-appropriate educational intervention

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-79

  Young, Staci ^a,b,c   Fink, Arlene ^a,b,c   Geiger, Susan ^a,b,c   Marbella, Anne ^a,b,c   Mast, Alan E ^a,b,c   Schellhase, Kenneth G ^a,b,c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOTIVATION; PUBLICATION; READING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; BLOOD DONORS; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAMPHLETS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 73649131264     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02358.x     Document Type: Article

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