Exploring laypeople's epistemic beliefs about medicine - A factor-analytic survey study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kienhues, Dorothe ^a   Bromme, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICINE; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865839953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-759     Document Type: Article

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