Health beliefs as predictors of breast cancer screening behavior in a group of female employees in shiraz

Iranian Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 124-129

  Aflakseir, Abdulaziz ^a   Abbasi, Parinaz ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Breast self examination; Cancer screening; MPammography; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHAMPION HEALTH BELIEFS SCALE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; IRAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PERCEPTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE;

EID: 84864445206     PISSN: 20082401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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