Family Physician Self-Efficacy With Screening for Inherited Cancer Risk
Open Access
- 1 March 2004
- journal article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 2 (2) , 130-132
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.60
Abstract
BACKGROUND Recent evidence has shown low and inconsistent rates of family history screening among generalist physicians. Little has been done to investigate the physician factors likely to mediate this behavior. We investigated family physicians’ beliefs about screening their patients for inherited cancer risk, measuring their perceptions of self-efficacy and the importance of screening.Keywords
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