Health beliefs, treatment preferences and complementary and alternative medicine for asthma, smoking and lung cancer self-management in diverse Black communities

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 489-500

  George, Maureen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Asthma; Black; Complementary and alternative medicine; Explanatory models; Health beliefs; Lung cancer; Smoking

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG SAFETY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; EXPLANATORY MODEL; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CARE; SMOKING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASTHMA; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CULTURE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SELF CARE; SMOKING;

EID: 84870293960     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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