Storytelling for promoting colorectal cancer screening among underserved Latina women: A randomized pilot study

Cancer Control

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-87

  Larkey, Linda K ^a,b,c   Lopez, Ana Maria ^a,b,c   Minnal, Archana ^a   Gonzalez, Julie ^a,c  

^a Department of Family and Community Medicine ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FEAR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PILOT STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL STATUS; STORYTELLING; VEGETABLE; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 61449309261     PISSN: 10732748     EISSN: 15262359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107327480901600112     Document Type: Article

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