Nonmedical information seeking amid conflicting health information: negative and positive effects on prostate cancer screening

Health Communication

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 417-424

  Gibson, Laura ^a   Tan, Andy S L ^a   Freres, Derek ^a   Lewis, Nehama ^b   Martinez, Lourdes ^c   Hornik, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGED; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84948582061     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2014.963786     Document Type: Article

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