Development of wagle health-specific religiousness scale

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 418-425

  Wagle, Ann M ^a   Champion, Victoria L ^b   Russell, Kathleen M ^b   Rawl, Susan M ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American women; Health beliefs; Health specific religiousness; Mammography screening

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POVERTY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; RELIGION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349159589     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e3181aaf0dd     Document Type: Article

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