Obese women's barriers to mammography and pap smear: The possible role of personality

Obesity

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1611-1617

  Friedman, Asia M ^a   Hemler, Jennifer R ^a   Rossetti, Elisa ^a   Clemow, Lynn P ^a,b   Ferrante, Jeanne M ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMMERSION; MAMMOGRAPHY; OBESITY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PERSONALITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLOTHING; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; FEAR; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OBESITY; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSONALITY; PREJUDICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 84864374871     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2012.50     Document Type: Article

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