Parental Perceptions and Practices toward Childhood Asthma.
Introduction. Parental perceptions and practices are important for improving the asthma outcomes in children; indeed, evidence shows that parents of asthmatic children harbor considerable misperceptions of the disease. Objective. To investigate the perceptions and practices of parents toward asthma...
| Published in: | BioMed Research International Vol. 2016; pp. 1 - 8 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
10/23/2016
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