Correlates between risk perceptions of cervical cancer and screening practice

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue SUPPL, 2013, Pages

  Wong, Yut Lin ^a   Chinna, Karuthan ^a   Mariapun, Jeevitha ^a   Shuib, Rashidah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Malaysia; Pap smear; Risk perception; Screening; Targeted knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CHRISTIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MOSLEM; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

CERVICAL CANCER; MALAYSIA; PAP SMEAR; RISK PERCEPTION; SCREENING; TARGETED KNOWLEDGE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84880582380     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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