Psychologic predictors of cancer information avoidance among older adults: The role of cancer fear and fatalism

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1872-1879

  Miles, Anne ^a   Voorwinden, Sanne ^a   Chapman, Sarah ^a   Wardle, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INFORMATION AVOIDANCE; CANCER PREVENTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEAR; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 54049112734     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0074     Document Type: Article

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