Predictors of Papanicolaou testing in working women in Bangkok, Thailand

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 384-389

  Boonpongmanee, Chayanin ^a   Jittanoon, Piyanuch ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Health beliefs; Papanicolaou test; Thailand; Working woman

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH BELIEF MODEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MARRIAGE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THAILAND; WORKER;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THAILAND; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 34548687993     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000290804.38335.32     Document Type: Article

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