Breast cancer risk assessment and risk perception on nurses and midwives in Bornova Health District in Turkey

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 244-249

  Çeber, Esin ^a   Soyer, Meral Turk ^a   Ciceklioglu, Meltem ^a   Cimat, Sunduz ^b  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Assessment; Breast cancer; Calculation; Estimation; Gail model; Perception; Risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDWIFE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE MIDWIFE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SELF CARE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE MIDWIVES; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TURKEY;

EID: 33745882360     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-200605000-00013     Document Type: Article

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