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Effects of parents' health attitudes and beliefs on children's preventive care utilization

This thesis was designed to test the relationship between parents' health attitudes and beliefs and utilization of preventive health services of their children. Four measures of health attitudes and beliefs (HAB) were examined in this study, they were: 1) Interest in and concern with health; 2) Skepticism about physicians; 3) Tendency to consult physicians; and 4) Efficacy. Preventive care utilization included well-child care and immunization.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:pdx.edu/oai:pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu:open_access_etds-5325
Date01 January 1992
CreatorsHu, Weiming
PublisherPDXScholar
Source SetsPortland State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceDissertations and Theses

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