Determinants of breast cancer knowledge among newly diagnosed, low-income, medically underserved women with breast cancer

Cancer

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1153-1161

  Chen, Judy Y ^a   Diamant, Allison L ^b   Thind, Amardeep ^c   Maly, Rose C ^b  

^a Health Benchmarks Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Knowledge; Medically underserved; Physician patient communication; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEPHONE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 39749084575     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23262     Document Type: Article

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