The validity and reliability of champion's health belief model scale for breast cancer screening behaviors among Iranian women

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 465-472

  Taymoori, Parvaneh ^a   Berry, Tanya ^b  

^a Kurdistan Medical University   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Health belief; Iranian women; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DECISION MAKING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF MODEL SCALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; IRAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73649120631     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e3181aaf124     Document Type: Article

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