Educating health consumers about cardio-metabolic health risk: What can we learn from lay mental models of risk?

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 300-308

  Damman, Olga C ^a   Timmermans, Danielle R M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardio metabolic diseases; Mental models; Prevention; Qualitative research; Risk communication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIOMETABOLIC DISEASE; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONSUMER; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY HISTORY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METABOLIC DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TAPE RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868198005     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2012.06.030     Document Type: Article

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