Asian Nursing Research
Volume 3, Issue 4 , Pages 186-195 , December 2009

Familiarity, Preference, and Utilization of Ethnic Items Among Asian Americans

  • Gwi-Ryung Son Hong, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Gwi-Ryung Son Hong, RN, PhD, Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, Korea

Received 2 November 2009 ,Revised 5 November 2009 ,Accepted 27 November 2009.

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 Part of this paper was presented at the conference of the Midwest Nursing Research Society, Cleveland, Ohio, in 2001.

PII: S1976-1317(09)60030-X

doi: 10.1016/S1976-1317(09)60030-X

Asian Nursing Research
Volume 3, Issue 4 , Pages 186-195 , December 2009