Illness through the eyes of the child: The development of children's understanding of the causes of illness

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 363-370

  Koopman, Hendrik M ^a   Baars, Rolanda M ^a   Chaplin, John ^b   Zwinderman, Koos H ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Cognitive development; Health education; Illness concepts; Perception

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COLD; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; THEORETICAL MODEL; THINKING;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DISEASE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 9944243182     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2004.02.020     Document Type: Article

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