Reliability and validity of the breast cancer screening belief scale among Turkish women

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 287-294

  Secginli, Selda ^a   Nahcivan, Nursen O ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast self examination; Health beliefs; Mammography; Reliability; Turkish women; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER SCREENING; CHAMPION HEALTH BELIEF MODEL SCALE; ETHNIC GROUP; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATERNAL CARE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RELIGION; SELF EXAMINATION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSLATIONS; TURKEY; WOMEN;

EID: 3543062804     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-200407000-00005     Document Type: Article

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