South Asian womens' views on the causes of breast cancer: Images and explanations

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 243-254

  Johnson, Joy L ^a   Bottorff, Joan L ^a   Balneaves, Lynda G ^a   Grewal, Sukhdev ^b   Bhagat, Radhika ^b   Hilton, B Ann ^a   Clarke, Heather ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Vancouver/Richmond Health Board   (Canada)

^c Regis Nurses Assoc Brit Columbia   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Health beliefs; Risk perception; Screening; South Asian culture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; TAXONOMY; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CONTROL; COUNSELING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEAR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; CAUSALITY; COUNSELING; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEAR; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; WOMEN;

EID: 0032979322     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-3991(98)00118-9     Document Type: Article

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