Effectiveness of peer education for breast cancer screening and health beliefs in Eastern Turkey

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 213-220

  Gözüm, Sebahat ^a   Karayurt, Özgul ^b   Kav, Sultan ^c   Platin, Nurgun ^d  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Early diagnosis; Health belief model; Nursing; Peer education; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER SCREENING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PEER GROUP; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TURKEY; WOMEN;

EID: 77951768210     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e3181cb40a8     Document Type: Article

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