Asking people directly about preferred health-seeking behaviour yields invalid response: An experiment in south-east Nigeria

Journal of Public Health

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-100

  Onwujekwe, Obinna ^a   Chukwuogo, Ogoamaka ^a   Ezeoke, Uche ^a   Uzochukwu, Benjamin ^a   Eze, Soludo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

public health

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; NIGERIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; NIGERIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 79952166878     PISSN: 17413842     EISSN: 17413850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdq065     Document Type: Article

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