Knowledge of risk factors, beliefs and practices of female healthcare professionals towards breast cancer in a tertiary institution in Lagos, Nigeria

BMC Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ibrahim, Nasiru A ^a   Odusanya, Olumuyiwa O ^a  

^a LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER SCREENING; CHI SQUARE TEST; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MANTEL HAENSZEL TEST; NIGERIA; NURSE; OCCUPATION; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOM SAMPLE; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; NURSES; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63049085957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-76     Document Type: Article

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