Cancer fear and fatalism among ethnic minority women in the United Kingdom

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 597-604

  Vrinten, Charlotte ^a   Wardle, Jane ^a   Marlow, Laura A V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cancer; early detection; ethnic group; ethnicity; fatalism; fear; screening; worry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN; ARTICLE; BANGLADESHI; CARIBBEAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FATALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIAN; MIGRATION; NEOPLASM; PAKISTANI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM; AFRICA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BANGLADESH; BLACK PERSON; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; MINORITY GROUP; PAKISTAN; PSYCHOLOGY;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BANGLADESH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; NEOPLASMS; PAKISTAN; UNITED KINGDOM; WEST INDIES; WOMEN;

EID: 84959376095     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2016.15     Document Type: Article

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