Poor health literacy associated with stronger perceived barriers to breast cancer screening and overestimated breast cancer risk
Low health literacy (HL) is negatively associated with mammography screening uptake. However, evidence of the links between poor HL and low mammography screening participation is scarce.
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| author | Poon, Paul K. M. Tam, King Wa Lam, Thomas Y. T. Luk, Arthur K. C. Chu, Winnie C. W. Cheung, Polly Wong, Samuel Y. S. Sung, Joseph Jao Yiu |
| author2 | Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) |
| author_facet | Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Poon, Paul K. M. Tam, King Wa Lam, Thomas Y. T. Luk, Arthur K. C. Chu, Winnie C. W. Cheung, Polly Wong, Samuel Y. S. Sung, Joseph Jao Yiu |
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| description | Low health literacy (HL) is negatively associated with mammography screening uptake. However, evidence of the links between poor HL and low mammography screening participation is scarce. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1693782023-07-23T15:38:22Z Poor health literacy associated with stronger perceived barriers to breast cancer screening and overestimated breast cancer risk Poon, Paul K. M. Tam, King Wa Lam, Thomas Y. T. Luk, Arthur K. C. Chu, Winnie C. W. Cheung, Polly Wong, Samuel Y. S. Sung, Joseph Jao Yiu Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Science::Medicine Risk Perception Cancer Screening Low health literacy (HL) is negatively associated with mammography screening uptake. However, evidence of the links between poor HL and low mammography screening participation is scarce. Published version The multi-cancer screening program is funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. 2023-07-17T05:02:15Z 2023-07-17T05:02:15Z 2023 Journal Article Poon, P. K. M., Tam, K. W., Lam, T. Y. T., Luk, A. K. C., Chu, W. C. W., Cheung, P., Wong, S. Y. S. & Sung, J. J. Y. (2023). Poor health literacy associated with stronger perceived barriers to breast cancer screening and overestimated breast cancer risk. Frontiers in Oncology, 12, 1053698-. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.1053698 2234-943X https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169378 10.3389/fonc.2022.1053698 36686831 2-s2.0-85146498376 12 1053698 en Frontiers in Oncology © 2023 Poon, Tam, Lam, Luk, Chu, Cheung, Wong and Sung. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Science::Medicine Risk Perception Cancer Screening Poon, Paul K. M. Tam, King Wa Lam, Thomas Y. T. Luk, Arthur K. C. Chu, Winnie C. W. Cheung, Polly Wong, Samuel Y. S. Sung, Joseph Jao Yiu Poor health literacy associated with stronger perceived barriers to breast cancer screening and overestimated breast cancer risk |
| title | Poor health literacy associated with stronger perceived barriers to breast cancer screening and overestimated breast cancer risk |
| title_full | Poor health literacy associated with stronger perceived barriers to breast cancer screening and overestimated breast cancer risk |
| title_fullStr | Poor health literacy associated with stronger perceived barriers to breast cancer screening and overestimated breast cancer risk |
| title_full_unstemmed | Poor health literacy associated with stronger perceived barriers to breast cancer screening and overestimated breast cancer risk |
| title_short | Poor health literacy associated with stronger perceived barriers to breast cancer screening and overestimated breast cancer risk |
| title_sort | poor health literacy associated with stronger perceived barriers to breast cancer screening and overestimated breast cancer risk |
| topic | Science::Medicine Risk Perception Cancer Screening |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169378 |
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