What are the Psychological Factors Influencing Attendance, Non-Attendance and Re-Attendance at a Breast Screening Centre?

作者: L J Fallowfield , A Rodway , M Baum

DOI: 10.1177/014107689008300905

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摘要: We describe some preliminary findings from a pilot study using three recently developed questionnaires which assessed items such as the health beliefs, knowledge about cancer and attitudes to breast screening in 242 women invited attend for mammographic South East London. suggest that these should be used all regional centres both monitor psychological variables identify local problems within service may influencing up-take of invitations come screening.

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