Breast cancer awareness and practice of breast self examination among primary health care nurses: Influencing factors and effects of an in-service education

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 707-715

  Soyer, Meral Türk ^a   Ciceklioglu, Meltem ^a   Ceber, Esin ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer; In service training; Nurses; Nursing; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; MANPOWER; MOTIVATION; NURSE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MOTIVATION; NURSES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 34047145462     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2006.01644.x     Document Type: Article

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