Evaluating a stage model in predicting monolingual spanish-speaking latinas' cervical cancer screening practices: The role of psychosocial and cultural predictors

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 791-805

  Arredondo, Elva Maria ^a   Pollak, Kathryn ^b   Costanzo, Philip R ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Culture; Latinas; Psychosocial; Stage model

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55649100741     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198107303250     Document Type: Article

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