The knowledge and attitudes of breast self-examination and mammography in a group of women in a rural area in western Turkey

BMC Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Dündar, Pinar Erbay ^a   Özmen, Dilek ^a   Öztürk, Beyhan ^a   Haspolat, Gökçe ^a   Akyildiz, Filiz ^a   Çoban, Sümeyra ^a   Çakiroǧlu, Gamze ^a  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INCOME; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MARRIAGE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANK SUM TEST; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL ASPECT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIOGRAPHY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL HEALTH; TURKEY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33645031138     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-6-43     Document Type: Article

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