Considerations in Recruiting Underscreened Women to Focus Groups on Screening for Cervical Cancer

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 379-384

  Wilson, Katherine M ^a   Orians, Carlyn E ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Black women; cervical cancer screening; focus groups; formative research; recruitment

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASS SCREENING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT SELECTION; RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33644696036     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839905278755     Document Type: Article

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