Adolescent Cancer Education (ACE) to increase adolescent and parent cancer awareness and communication: Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

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Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kyle, Richard G ^a   Macmillan, Iona ^b   Rauchhaus, Petra ^c   O'Carroll, Ronan ^a   Neal, Richard D ^d   Forbat, Liz ^a   Haw, Sally ^a   Hubbard, Gill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b TEENAGE CANCER TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PARENT CANCER COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANCER AWARENESS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PILOT STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL; SELF CONCEPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AWARENESS; CHILD; COMMUNICATION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RESEARCH DESIGN; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SCOTLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883547381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-14-286     Document Type: Article

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