Witness response at acute onset of stroke: A qualitative theory-guided study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Dombrowski, Stephan U ^a   Sniehotta, Falko F ^a   Mackintosh, Joan ^a   White, Martin ^a   Rodgers, Helen ^a   Thomson, Richard G ^a   Murtagh, Madeleine J ^a,b   Ford, Gary A ^a,c   Eccles, Martin P ^a   Araujo Soares, Vera ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AWARENESS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PATIENT CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF REGULATION MODEL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STROKE; THEORY VALIDATION; WITNESS;

BEHAVIOR; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 84864112486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039852     Document Type: Article

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