Understanding Hmong women's beliefs, feelings, norms, and external conditions about breast and cervical cancer screening

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 420-428

  Lor, Maichou ^a   Khang, Pa Yiar ^b   Xiong, Pa ^c   Moua, Kao Feng ^d   Lauver, Diane ^e  

^a University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare St Francis   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer screening; Breast self examination; Cancer; Cervical cancer screening; Culture; Hmong; Screening; Theory of care seeking behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST CANCER SCREENING; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; BREAST TUMOR; CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HMONG; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SCREENING; STATISTICS; THEORY OF CARE-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

BREAST CANCER SCREENING; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; CANCER; CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING; CULTURE; HMONG; SCREENING; THEORY OF CARE-SEEKING BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883551782     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/phn.12043     Document Type: Article

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