Titre :
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A tailored intervention to promote breast cancer screening among South Asian immigrant women. (2005)
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Auteurs :
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Farah AHMAD ;
Jill-I CAMERON ;
Donna-E STEWART ;
University of Toronto. Women's Health Program. University Health Network and Faculty of Medicine. Toronto. ON. CAN
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Social science and medicine (vol. 60, n° 3, 2005)
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Pagination :
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575-586
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Cancer
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Thérapeutique
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Sein
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Glande mammaire [pathologie]
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Dépistage
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Migrant
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Femme
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Homme
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Canada
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Amérique
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Promotion santé
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Croyance
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Attitude
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Amérique du Nord
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS pe12R0x0. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This study developed and evaluated a socioculturally tailored intervention to improve knowledge, beliefs and clinical breast examination (CBE) among South Asian (SA) immigrant women. The intervention comprised a series of socioculturally tailored breast-health articles published in Urdu and Hindi community newspapers. A pre-and post-intervention design evaluated the impact of the mailed articles among 74 participants. The mean age of participants was 37 years (SD 9.7) and they had lived 6 years (SD 6.6) in Canada. After the intervention, there was a significant increase in self-reporting'ever had'routine physical checkup (46.4-70.8% ; p
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