Social support and cervical and breast cancer screening in argentinean women from a rural population: Populations at risk across the lifespan: Case reports

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 269-276

  Gamarra, Carmen Justina ^a,b   Paz, Elisabete Pimenta Araújo ^c   Griep, Rosane Harter ^b  

^a State University of Rio de Janeiro ^*  (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cervical cancer; Household survey; Social support; Woman health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ARGENTINA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; WOMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64949185351     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2009.00779.x     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Alvarado, B. E., Zunzunegui, M. V. Delisle, H. (2005). Validation of food security and social support scales in an Afro-Colombian community: Application on a prevalence study of nutritional status in children aged 6 to 18 months. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 21 (3), 724 736 (Spanish).
2. Anderson, D. G. Rayens, M. K. (2004). Factors influencing homelessness in women. Public Health Nursing, 21 (1), 12 23.
3. Andrade, C. R., Chor, D., Faerstein, E., Griep, R. H., Lopes, C. S. Fonseca, M. de J. (2005). Social support and breast self-examination in the Pró-Saúde study. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 21 (2), 379 386.
4. Bellón Saameño, J. A., Delgado, S. A., Castillo, J. D. L. Lardelli, C. P. (1996). Validez y fiabilidad del cuestionario de apoyo social funcional Duke-UNC-11. Atención Primaria, 18 (4), 153 163 (Spanish).
5. Berkman, L. F. Glass, T. (2000). Social integration, social networks, social support and health. In L. F. Berkman I. Kawachi (Eds.), Social epidemiology (1st ed., pp. 137 173). New York : Oxford University Press.
6. Bowling, A. (1997). Measuring social networks and social support. In A. Bowling (Ed.), Measuring health: A review of quality of life measurements scales (2nd ed., pp. 91 109). Baltimore : Open University Press.
7. Broadhead, W. E., Gehlbach, S. H., deGruy, F. V. Kaplan, B. H. (1989). Functional versus structural social support and health care utilization in a family medicine outpatient practice. Medical Care, 27 (3), 221 233.
8. Broadhead, W. E., Sthephen, H. G., Frank, V. G. Berton, H. K. (1988). The Duke-UNC functional social support questionnaire. Measurement of social support in family medicine patients. Medical Care, 26 (7), 709 723.
9. Checkoway, H., Pearce, N. E. Crawford-Brown, D. J. (1989). Research methods in occupational epidemiology. In : H. Checkoway, N. E. Pearce D. J. Crawford-Brown (Eds.), Overview of study designs (pp. 46 71). New York : Oxford University Press.
10. Cohen, S. Wills, T. A. (1985). Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis. Psychological Bulletin, 98 (2), 310 357.
11. Gamarra, C. J., Paz, E. P. A. Griep, R. H. (2005). Knowledge, attitudes and practice related to Papanicolaou smear test among Argentina's women. Revista de Saúde Pública, 39 (2), 270 276.
12. Gleeson-Kreig, J., Bernal, H. Woolley, S. (2002). The role of social support in the self-management of diabetes mellitus among a Hispanic population. Public Health Nursing, 19 (3), 215 222.
13. Kang, S. H. Bloom, J. R. (1993). Social support and cancer screening among older black Americans. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 85 (9), 737 742.
14. Kang, S. H., Bloom, J. R. Romano, O. S. (1994). Cancer screening among African-American woman: Their use of tests and social support. American Journal of Public Health, 84 (1), 101 103.
15. Klimovsky, E. Matos, E. (1996a). Cobertura de prácticas de prevención del cáncer cervical uterino y mamario: Análisis de una población asintomática en el Partido de La Matanza. Revista de la Sociedad de Obstetricia y Ginecología de Buenos Aires, 75 (921), 242 256 (Spanish).
16. Klimovsky, E. Matos, E. (1996b). El uso de la prueba de Papanicolaou por una población de Buenos Aires. Boletín-Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana, 121 (6), 502 509 (Spanish).
17. Lewis, M. J. (2004). A situational analysis of cervical cancer in Latin America and the Caribbean. Washington, DC : Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO).
18. McAlister, A. L., Fernandez-Esquer, M. E., Ramirez, A. G., Trevino, F., Gallion, K. J., Villarreal, R., et al 1995). Community level cancer control in a Texas barrio: Part II - base-line and preliminary outcome findings [Monograph]. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 18, 123 126.
19. Ministerio de Salud de la Rep ú blica Argentina. (1998). Subprograma de Detección Precoz de Cáncer de Cuello Uterino. Buenos Aires : Resolución Ministerial No. 480/98 (Spanish).
20. Ministerio de Salud de la Rep ú blica Argentina. (1999). Subprograma de Prevención Secundaria del Cáncer de Mama. Buenos Aires : Resolución Secretarial No. 5/99 (Spanish).
21. Navarro, A. M., Senn, K. L., McNicholas, L. J., Kaplan, R. M., Roppé, B. Campo, M. C. (1998). Por La Vida model intervention enhances use of cancer screening tests among Latinas. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 15 (1), 32 41.
22. Pan American Health Organization [PAHO]. (2002). Cervical cancer: Fighting a leading killer in the Americas. Washington, DC : Author. Retrieved April 25, 2008, from
23. Pan American Health Organization [PAHO]. (2005). Update: Situation of cervical cancer in the Americas (2002 data). Washington, DC : Author. Retrieved April 25, 2008, from
24. Park, S., Chang, S. Chung, C. (2005). Effects of a cognition-emotion focused program to increase public participation in papanicolaou smear screening. Public Health Nursing, 22 (4), 289 298.
25. Peragallo, N. P., Alba, M. L. Tow, B. (1997). Cervical cancer screening practices among Latino women in Chicago. Public Health Nursing, 14 (4), 251 255.
26. Seow, A., Huang, J. Straughan, P. T. (2000). Effects of social support, regular physician and health-related attitudes on cervical cancer screening in an Asian population. Cancer Causes and Control, 11 (3), 223 230.
27. Sherbourne, C. D. Stewart, A. L. (1991). The MOS social support survey. Social Science and Medicine, 32 (6), 705 714.
28. Straughan, P. T. Seow, A. (2000). Attitudes as barriers in breast screening: A prospective study among Singapore women. Social Science and Medicine, 51 (11), 1695 1703.
29. Suarez, L., Lloyd, L., Weiss, N., Rainbolt, T. Pulley, L. (1994). Effect of social networks on cancer screening behavior of older Mexican-American women. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 86 (10), 775 779.
30. Suarez, L., Ramirez, A. G., Villarreal, R., Marti, J., McAlister, A., Talavera, G. A., et al 2000). Social networks and cancer screening in four U.S. Hispanic groups. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 19 (1), 47 52.
31. Taylor, S. E., Repetti, R. L. Seeman, T. (1997). Health psychology: What is an unhealthy environment and how does it get under the skin? Annual Review of Psychology, 48 (1), 411 447.
32. Thomas, D. B., Gao, D. L., Ray, R. M., Wang, W. W., Allison, C. J., Chen, F. L., et al 2002). Randomized trial of breast self-examination in Shanghai: Final results. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 94 (19), 1445 1457.
33. Wagner, J., Burg, M. Sirois, B. (2004). Social support and the transtheoretical model: Relationship of social support to smoking cessation stage, decisional balance, process use, and temptation. Addictive Behaviors, 29 (5), 1039 1043.