Psychosocial correlates of mammography screening in older African American women

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 117-123

  Farmer, Deborah ^a   Reddick, Bobbie ^a   D'Agostino Jr , Ralph ^b   Jackson, Sharon A ^c  

^a WINSTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NORTH CAROLINA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 34250322759     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/07.ONF.117-123     Document Type: Article

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