Knowledge and health beliefs of Jamaican adolescents with sickle cell disease

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1044-1048

  Bhatt, Komal ^a   Reid, Marvin E ^a   Lewis, Norma A ^a   Asnani, Monika R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Chronic illness; Health beliefs; Jamaica; Knowledge; Sickle cell disease

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; JAMAICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CARE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; JAMAICA; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052679003     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.23091     Document Type: Article

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