Health belief assessment regarding screening colonoscopy

Gastroenterology Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 262-267

  Gipsh, Katherine ^a   Sullivan, Jean M ^b   Dietz, Elizabeth O ^b  

^a Tri City Health Center   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPOUSE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CALIFORNIA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COST OF ILLNESS; CUES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPOUSES;

EID: 14744271438     PISSN: 1042895X     EISSN: 15389766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001610-200411000-00004     Document Type: Article

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