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

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: 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
• مؤلفون آخرون: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2023
• الموضوعات: Science::Medicine; Risk Perception; Cancer Screening
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169378

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.