Health information styles among participants in a prostate cancer screening informed decision-making intervention
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Health information styles among participants in a prostate cancer screening informed decision-making intervention.
The purpose of this study was to assess the usefulness of a health information styles segmentation strategy in understanding audience subgroups. We examined the health information styles of men participating in a prostate cancer screening informed decision-making (IDM) intervention and assessed intervention effects on men with distinct health information styles. We classified participants into ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Education Research
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0268-1153,1465-3648
DOI: 10.1093/her/cyn011