Exploring the relationship between resilience and diabetes outcomes in African Americans

Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 602-610

  Denisco, Susan ^a  

^a SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Diabetes type 2; Psychosocial; Resilience; Women

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; COPING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARIBBEAN REGION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80155129616     PISSN: 10412972     EISSN: 17457599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7599.2011.00648.x     Document Type: Article

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