Strategies for recruiting Hispanic women into a prospective cohort study of modifiable risk factors for gestational diabetes mellitus

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chasan Taber, Lisa ^a   Fortner, Renée T ^a   Hastings, Valerie ^a   Markenson, Glenn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OBSTETRIC CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRENATAL CARE; PROCESS MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; ADVERTIZING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; AGE FACTORS; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74049118053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-9-57     Document Type: Article

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