Structural and predictive equivalency of the Wisconsin smoking withdrawal scale across three racial/ethnic groups

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 548-555

  Castro, Yessenia ^a   Kendzor, Darla E ^b   Businelle, Michael S ^b   Mazas, Carlos A ^a   Cofta Woerpel, Ludmila ^a   Cinciripini, Paul M ^a   Wetter, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUNGER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RATING SCALE; RELAPSE; SMOKING CESSATION; WISCONSIN SMOKING WITHDRAWAL SCALE;

EID: 79960188504     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntr039     Document Type: Article

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