Attitudes and Health Beliefs Associated With Breast Cancer Screening Behaviors Among Turkish Women

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 368-375

  Gürsoy, Ayla Akkaş ^a   Mumcu, Havva Karadeniz ^a   Çalık, Kıymet Yeşilçiçek ^a   Bulut, Hacer Kobya ^a   Nural, Nesrin ^a   Kahriman, I Lknur ^a   Hintistan, Sevilay ^a   Erdöl, Hacer ^a   Yiğitbaş, Çağla ^a   Yılmaz, Fatma ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

breast cancer; champion health belief model; early detection; health beliefs; Turkish women; women's health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MULTICENTER STUDY; PALPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; PALPATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TURKEY;

EID: 81055124917     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: 15527832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659611414137     Document Type: Article

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