Level of awareness of mammography among women attending outpatient clinics in a teaching hospital in Ibadan, South-West Nigeria

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Obajimi, Millicent O ^a   Ajayi, Ikeoluwapo O ^a   Oluwasola, Abideen O ^a   Adedokun, Babatunde O ^a   Adeniji Sofoluwe, Adenike T ^a   Mosuro, Olushola A ^a   Akingbola, Titilola S ^a   Bassey, Oku S ^a   Umeh, Eric ^a   Soyemi, Temitope O ^a   Adegoke, Folasade ^a   Ogungbade, Idiat ^a   Ukaigwe, Chinwe ^a   Olopade, Olufunmilayo I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Mammography; Nigeria; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; BREAST TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS MEDIUM; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; AWARENESS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872171197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-40     Document Type: Article

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