Inside the PAR group: The group dynamics of women learning to live with diabetes

Action Research

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 373-386

  Adili, Fatemeh ^a   Higgins, Isabel ^a   Koch, Tina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diabetes; group dynamics; learning; participatory action research; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871307165     PISSN: 14767503     EISSN: 17412617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476750312456710     Document Type: Article

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