Differencies in the level of knowledge on cervical cancer among health care students, midwives and patients in Serbia

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3011-3015

  Antic, Ljiljana Gojko ^a   Djikanovic, Bosiljka Svetozar ^b   Antic, Dragan Zivojin ^a   Aleksopulos, Hristos Georgios ^a   Trajkovic, Goran Zivojin ^b  

^a Department for Medical Nurses Midwives   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Health care students; HPV vaccine; Knowledge; Midwives; Pap test; Women

Indexed keywords

WART VIRUS VACCINE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLASSIFICATION; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PAPILLOMA VIRUS; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SERBIA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADULT; CONDYLOMATA ACUMINATA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFERY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS VACCINES; PATIENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SERBIA; STUDENTS, HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 84900859652     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2014.15.7.3011     Document Type: Article

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