Breast Cancer Worry and Screening: Some Prospective Data

Health Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 430-433

  McCaul, Kevin D ^a   Schroeder, Dawn M ^a   Reid, Patricia A ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer screening; Worry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; BREAST TUMOR; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030280004     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.15.6.430     Document Type: Article

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