Cancer Fatalism, Literacy, and Cancer Information Seeking in the American Public
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Cancer Fatalism, Literacy, and Cancer Information Seeking in the American Public
Information seeking is an important behavior for cancer prevention and control, but inequalities in the communication of information about the disease persist. Conceptual models have suggested that low health literacy is a barrier to information seeking, and that fatalistic beliefs about cancer may be a mediator of this relationship. Cancer fatalism can be described as deterministic thoughts ab...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Education & Behavior
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1090-1981,1552-6127
DOI: 10.1177/1090198115604616