Project ACTS II: Organ donation education for African American adults

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 230-237

  Arriola, Kimberly R Jacob ^a   Robinson, Dana H Z ^a   Perryman, Jennie P ^b   Thompson, Nancy J ^a   Russell, Emily F ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Intervention research; Minority health; Organ donation; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGAN DONOR; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TISSUE DONORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875786389     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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