Empowerment Beliefs and Intention to Uptake Cervical Cancer Screening: Three Psychosocial Mediating Mechanisms

Women and Health

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 162-181

  Luszczynska, Aleksandra ^a,b   Durawa, Alicja B ^b   Scholz, Urte ^c   Knoll, Nina ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

cervical cancer; empowerment; intention; mediation; screening

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POLAND; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTENTION; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POLAND; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859596282     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: 15410331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03630242.2012.656187     Document Type: Article

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