Fearful or functional - a cross-sectional survey of the concepts of childhood fever among German and Turkish mothers in Germany

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Langer, Thorsten ^a,b   Pfeifer, Miriam ^a   Soenmez, Aynur ^a   Tarhan, Bilge ^a   Jeschke, Elke ^c   Ostermann, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b HELIOS KLINIKUM WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c Havelhoehe Research Institute   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEAR; FEMALE; FEVER; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MOTHER; PEDIATRICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL STATUS; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; FEAR; FEMALE; FEVER; GERMANY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MOTHERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; TURKEY;

EID: 79956210506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-11-41     Document Type: Article

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