Barriers and facilitating factors perceived in Turkish women's behaviors towards early cervical cancer detection: A qualitative approach

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4977-4982

  Ersin, Fatma ^a   Bahar, Zuhal ^b  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Barriers and facilitating factors; Cervical cancer; Early detection; Health promotion models

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TURKEY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADULT; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TRANSPORTATION; TURKEY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 84887596871     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2013.14.9.4977     Document Type: Article

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