Afghan immigrant women's knowledge and behaviors around breast cancer screening

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1705-1717

  Shirazi, Mehra ^a,b   Bloom, Joan ^b   Shirazi, Aida ^c   Popal, Rona ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Afghan Coalition   (United States)

Author keywords

Afghan women; barriers; breast cancer; community based participatory research; early detection; immigrant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AWARENESS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFORMATION SEEKING; KNOWLEDGE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOSLEM; REVIEW; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AFGHAN WOMEN; BARRIERS; BREAST CANCER; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; EARLY DETECTION; IMMIGRANT;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ISLAM; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84880699967     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.3216     Document Type: Review

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