Psychosocial determinants of cancer-related information seeking among cancer patients

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 212-225

  Smith McLallen, Aaron ^a   Fishbein, Martin ^a   Hornik, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; BREAST TUMOR; COLON TUMOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTENTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951532224     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2010.522227     Document Type: Article

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