Ethnic and gender differences in patient education about heart disease risk and prevention

Gilat L Grunau, Pamela A Ratner, Paul M Galdas, Shahadut Hossain

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Abstract

To investigate whether there are gender and ethnic disparities in the patient education provided by primary healthcare providers about heart disease (HD) risk and prevention.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)181-188
Number of pages8
JournalPatient Education and Counseling
Volume76
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2009

Keywords

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Canada
  • Confidence Intervals
  • Data Collection
  • Educational Status
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Female
  • Health Status Disparities
  • Heart Diseases
  • Humans
  • Logistic Models
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Models, Statistical
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Odds Ratio
  • Patient Education as Topic
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Questionnaires
  • Risk Factors
  • Sex Factors

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