Acculturation and breast self‐examination among immigrant Latina women in the USA
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in International Nursing Review
- Vol. 47 (1) , 38-45
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1466-7657.2000.00005.x
Abstract
This article is an extension of previous work, which identified acculturation as an important variable in predicting breast self‐examination (BSE) in this sample of women. Here, acculturation is furt...Keywords
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