The Latina Breast Cancer Screening Sacle: Beliefs about breast cancer and breast cancer screening

Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 944-955

  Borrayo, Evelinn A ^a   González, Patricia ^b   Swaim, Randall ^c   Marcus, Al ^d   Flores, Estevan ^e   Espinoza, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Center of Community Alliance for Research and Education   (United Kingdom)

^c Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e Population Science and Cancer Control

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cultural health beliefs; Hispanic; Instrument validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER SCREENING; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LATINA BREAST CANCER SCREENING SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORADO; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 70349772272     PISSN: 13591053     EISSN: 14617277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359105309341203     Document Type: Article

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