Health beliefs and breast cancer screening behaviors among Iranian female health workers

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 9817-9822

  Shiryazdi, Seyed Mostafa ^a   Kholasehzadeh, Golrasteh ^a   Neamatzadeh, Hossein ^a   Kargar, Saeed ^a  

^a SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Breast cancer screening; Champion's health belief model scale; Iranian health workers; Mammography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; IRAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRES; UTILIZATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; IRAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921471947     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2014.15.22.9817     Document Type: Article

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