A multimedia breast cancer education intervention for low-income Latinas

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-51

  Valdez, Armando ^a   Banerjee, Kakoli ^a   Ackerson, Lynn ^b   Fernandez, Maria ^c  

^a Valdez and Associates   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Hispanic women; Latinas; Mammography; Multimedia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATIENT EDUCATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISPANIC; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036480759     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013880210074     Document Type: Article

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