Level of health education among neurological patients.
The task of health education is to develop health-promoting attitudes. The training of neurological patients and their families on how to care for own health and cope with the disease is a primary task of a nurse. The aim of the study, carried out among neurological patients, was to evaluate the eff...
| Publicado en: | Patient Education & Counseling Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 63 - 69 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
May2002
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