Cancer‐related help‐seeking in cancer survivors living in regional and remote Australia

OBJECTIVES: To measure rates of detection via screening, perceived self-imposed delays in seeking medical attention, and support seeking in a sample of regional and remote people with a cancer diagnosis and to test whether an association exists between these behaviours and minimising problems and resignation, a need for self-control and reliance and fatalism. Correlations and binary logistic regressions were conducted to test the associations between demographic characteristics, attitudes and behaviours. RESULTS: Females were more likely to have had their cancer detected via screening (OR = 10.02, CI = 3.49 - 28.78). Younger participants (r = -.103, p =.009) were slightly more likely to seek at least one form of support and online support was sought more often by younger patients (r = -.269, p < .001), females (r = .152 , p