Test me and treat me - Attitudes to vitamin D deficiency and supplementation: A qualitative study

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Kotta, Siddharth ^a   Gadhvi, Dev ^a   Jakeways, Niki ^a   Saeed, Maryum ^a   Sohanpal, Ratna ^a   Hull, Sally ^a   Famakin, Olufunke ^b   Martineau, Adrian ^a   Griffiths, Chris ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D; VITAMIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SUN EXPOSURE; UNITED KINGDOM; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; ENGLAND; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMINS;

EID: 84937206933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007401     Document Type: Article

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