Breast cancer-preventive behaviors: Exploring Iranian women's experiences

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Khazaee Pool, Maryam ^a   Montazeri, Ali ^b   Majlessi, Fereshteh ^a   Rahimi Foroushani, Abbas ^a   Nedjat, Saharnaz ^a   Shojaeizadeh, Davoud ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AVICENNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Iranian women; Preventive behaviors; Qualitative study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IRAN; LIFESTYLE; MARRIAGE; MOTIVATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; IRAN; LIFE STYLE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MOTIVATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84897404028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-14-41     Document Type: Article

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