Information about low participation in cancer screening demotivates other people

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 941-943

  Sieverding, Monika ^a   Decker, Sarah ^a   Zimmermann, Friederike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASM; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION;

EID: 77954822379     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610373936     Document Type: Article

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