Anxiety before, during, and after participation in a population-based screening mammography programme in Waikato Province, New Zealand

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 1209, 2005, Pages

  Brunton, Margaret A ^a   Jordan, Claire ^a   Campbell, Ian ^b,c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c Waikato Breast Cancer Care Centre   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAORI; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL STRESS; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PAIN; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLING; ABORIGINE; BREAST TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANXIETY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 17844405329     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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