On the importance of being ethnic: Coping with the threat of prostate cancer in relation to prostate cancer screening

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 509-526

  Kudadjie Gyamfi, Elizabeth ^a   Consedine, Nathan S ^a   Magai, Carol ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Coping styles; Ethnicity; Imagined prostate cancer diagnosis; Prostate specific antigen test

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; COPING BEHAVIOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33747494544     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.12.3.509     Document Type: Article

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