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Barriers to seeking help for skin cancer detection in rural Australia
- Source :
- Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol 6, Iss 2, p 19 (2017), Journal of Clinical Medicine; Volume 6; Issue 2; Pages: 19
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Switzerland : MDPIAG, 2017.
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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
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
psychosocial
skin
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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
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Socioeconomic disadvantage
Distrust
business.industry
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General Medicine
medicine.disease
Help-seeking
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Scale (social sciences)
Skin cancer
business
Psychosocial
Rural australia
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol 6, Iss 2, p 19 (2017), Journal of Clinical Medicine; Volume 6; Issue 2; Pages: 19
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b61f58bade3d6cd6f836648641a6630c