Poor health literacy associated with stronger perceived barriers to breast cancer screening and overestimated breast cancer risk

• Main Authors: 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
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Science::Medicine; Risk Perception; Cancer Screening
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169378
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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.