Perceptions of healthy children toward peers with a chronic condition

Children's Health Care

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 199-213

  King, Sara ^a,b   MacDonald, Amanda J ^a   Chambers, Christine T ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDIATRICS; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 77954964236     PISSN: 02739615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02739615.2010.493766     Document Type: Article

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