Add to ORKGThe success of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor screening programmes depends heavily on good uptake rates and the extent of risk factor modification following screening. It is thus important to try to understand what affects people's decision to attend a screening appointment and their motivation to change their lifestyle, if necessary, following screening. This paper summarises three studies undertaken to describe uptake of screening and risk factor modification and to identify the psychological factors involved. The studies took place in two settings: a worksite mobile screening service and a city health centre screening programme. The results identified a number of sociodemographic, personal and organisational factors involved in...
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Background: Psychological factors such as stress are known to increase the risk of some cancers. Imp...
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The two main aims of this thesis were first, to predict health behaviour and, second, to apply and t...
A review of thirty years’ research in cervical screening was conducted to assess the role of social ...
In Leek, a small town in the north of the Netherlands, 428 men aged between 30–33 years were invited...
BACKGROUND: Concerns that general health checks, including screening for risk factors to ischemic he...
Since ColoRectal Cancer (CRC) remains the third cause of cancer death in the world, a better underst...
Background Screening aims to improve health by early detection of disease or risk factors for diseas...
Adaptation to living with cardiovascular disease may differ from patient to patient and is influence...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality globally and in Malaysia. The prevale...
Background: It seems that more cardinal steps can be taken towards constraining cardiovascular disea...
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in America.1 With it costing the United States ...
Adaptation to living with cardiovascular disease may differ from patient to patient and is influence...
To carry out a systematic review to examine the effects of cholesterol, breast and cervical cancer s...
Cancer screening programmes have a major role in reducing cancer incidence and mortality. Traditiona...
Background: Psychological factors such as stress are known to increase the risk of some cancers. Imp...
Psychological symptoms are considered as one of the aspects and consequences of cardiovascular disea...
The two main aims of this thesis were first, to predict health behaviour and, second, to apply and t...
A review of thirty years’ research in cervical screening was conducted to assess the role of social ...
In Leek, a small town in the north of the Netherlands, 428 men aged between 30–33 years were invited...
BACKGROUND: Concerns that general health checks, including screening for risk factors to ischemic he...
Since ColoRectal Cancer (CRC) remains the third cause of cancer death in the world, a better underst...
Background Screening aims to improve health by early detection of disease or risk factors for diseas...
Adaptation to living with cardiovascular disease may differ from patient to patient and is influence...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality globally and in Malaysia. The prevale...
Background: It seems that more cardinal steps can be taken towards constraining cardiovascular disea...
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in America.1 With it costing the United States ...
Adaptation to living with cardiovascular disease may differ from patient to patient and is influence...
To carry out a systematic review to examine the effects of cholesterol, breast and cervical cancer s...
Cancer screening programmes have a major role in reducing cancer incidence and mortality. Traditiona...
Background: Psychological factors such as stress are known to increase the risk of some cancers. Imp...
Psychological symptoms are considered as one of the aspects and consequences of cardiovascular disea...