Fat Phobia of university students: Attitudes toward obesity

Journal of Allied Health

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Hayran, Osman ^a   Akan, Hülya ^a   Özkan, Azru Durukan ^a   Kocaoǧlu, Bike ^a  

^a YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PHOBIA; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TURKEY; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885462695     PISSN: 00907421     EISSN: 1945404X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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