Psychometric properties of the parents' fever management scale in a Turkish population

HealthMED

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 567-575

  Altun, Insaf ^a   Cinar, Nursan Dede ^b   Walsh, Anne ^c  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community; Febrile children; Instrument construct validity; Parent fever management scale; Parents practices; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958042308     PISSN: 18402291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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