Traditional beliefs and knowledge base about epilepsy among university students in Ghana

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-5

  Dugbartey, Anthony T ^a   Barimah, Kofi Bobi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Faculty of Public Health ^*  (Ghana)

Author keywords

Antonak and Rankin's Scale; Epilepsy; Ghana; Traditional beliefs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEIZURE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT ATTITUDE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CULTURE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873399389     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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