Taking the Transtheoretical Model Into the Field: A Curriculum for Lay Health Advisors

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 329-337

  Kobetz, Erin ^a   Vatalaro, Katherine ^b   Moore, Alexis ^c   Earp, jo Anne ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer screening; curriculum development; lay health advisors; mammography; transtheoretical model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COUNSELING; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HEALTH EDUCATOR; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COUNSELING; CURRICULUM; HEALTH EDUCATORS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH CAROLINA;

EID: 26944446622     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839904263838     Document Type: Article

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