Increasing attendance at colorectal cancer screening: Testing the efficacy of a mailed, psychoeducational intervention in a community sample of older adults

Health Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 99-105

  Wardle, Jane ^a   Williamson, Sara ^a   McCaffery, Kirsten ^a   Sutton, Stephen ^a   Taylor, Tamara ^a   Edwards, Robert ^b   Atkin, Wendy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Cancer; Colorectal; Education; Intervention; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 0037250484     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.22.1.99     Document Type: Article

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