Are Religious Women More Likely to Have Breast Cancer Screening?
The study objective was to investigate whether women who frequently attend religious services are more likely to have breast cancer screeningmammography and clinical breast examinationsthan other women. Multivariate logistic regression models show that white women who attended religious services f...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and health |
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| Authors: | ; ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[2002]
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Journal of religion and health
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| Further subjects: | B
Screening
B Race B African Americans B Religion B Breast Cancer |
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| Summary: | The study objective was to investigate whether women who frequently attend religious services are more likely to have breast cancer screeningmammography and clinical breast examinationsthan other women. Multivariate logistic regression models show that white women who attended religious services frequently had more than twice the odds of breast cancer screening than white women who attended less frequently (Odds Ratio (OR) = 2.61; 95% Confidence Interval (CI) = 1.12, 6.06). The behavior of white women was different from African American women (religious attendance-race interaction term p-value = 0.008); African American women who attended religious services frequently were possibly less likely to have breast cancer screening (OR 0.49; CI = 0.19-1.31). |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1023/A:1021174426609 |