1. Barriers to seeking help for skin cancer detection in rural Australia
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Carlene Wilson, Kate M. Fennell, James Dollman, Kimberley Martin, Greg Sharplin, Camilla Trenerry, Fennell, Kate M, Martin, Kimberley, Trenerry, Camilla J, Sharplin, Greg, and Dollman, James
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Gerontology ,psychosocial ,skin ,media_common.quotation_subject ,lcsh:Medicine ,help ,rural ,barrier ,help-seeking ,cancer ,physician-patient relations ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Medicine ,Normalization (sociology) ,030212 general & internal medicine ,media_common ,Socioeconomic disadvantage ,Distrust ,business.industry ,lcsh:R ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Help-seeking ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Scale (social sciences) ,Skin cancer ,business ,Psychosocial ,Rural australia - Abstract
This study explores rural South Australians’ barriers to help-seeking for skin cancer detection. A total of 201 randomly selected rural adults (18–94 years, 66% female) were presented with a skin-cancer-related scenario via telephone and were asked the extent to which various barriers would impede their help-seeking, based on an amended version of the Barriers to Help-Seeking Scale. Older (≥63 years) and less educated participants endorsed barriers more strongly than their younger, more educated counterparts in the following domains; “Concrete barriers and distrust of caregivers”, “Emotional control”, “Minimising problem and Normalisation”, “Need for control and self-reliance” (every domain other than “Privacy”). Socioeconomic disadvantage, gender, and farmer status did not predict stronger overall barriers, but some gender and occupation-related differences were detected at the item level. Farmers were also more likely to endorse the “Minimising problem and normalization” domain than their non-farmer working rural counterparts. Widely endorsed barriers included the tendency to minimise the problem, a desire to remain in control/not be influenced by others, reluctance to show emotion or complain, and having concerns about privacy or waiting times. Refereed/Peer-reviewed
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- 2017