Cancer-related attitudes: A comparative study in Japan and the US

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 665-672

  Gotay, Carolyn Cook ^a   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^b   Muraoka, Miles ^a   Ishihara, Yoko ^c   Tsuboi, Koji ^d   Ogawa, Hiroshi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE; CANCER RESEARCH; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; HAWAII; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 4544222878     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.792     Document Type: Article

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