Preconceptions influence women's perceptions of information on breast cancer screening: A qualitative study

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Henriksen, Mikael Johannes Vuokko ^a   Guassora, Ann Dorrit ^a   Brodersen, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Research Unit of General Practice   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cognitive dissonance (MeSH); Health communication (MESH); Informed consent (MeSH); Mammography (MeSH); Mass screening (MeSH)

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84940647359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1327-1     Document Type: Article

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