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Assessment of attitudes toward mass screening for colorectal cancer and polyps
- Source :
- Preventive medicine. 10(1)
- Publication Year :
- 1981
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Abstract
- At the University of New Mexico outpatient clinics, 202 consecutive patients were asked by a bilingual medical student to complete a questionnaire and to indicate interest in volunteering for a Hemoccult colorectal cancer screening program. Only 70 (34%) agreed to undergo screening. Hispanics were less likely to volunteer than Anglos. Nonvolunteers were significantly more likely to object to specific aspects of the screening protocol and to deny that they could have cancer. Use of only 5 of the 15 items in the questionnaire gave maximal discrimination between volunteers and nonvolunteers.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Epidemiology
Colorectal cancer
New Mexico
Sex Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
medicine
Outpatient clinic
Humans
Mass Screening
Mass screening
Aged
Gynecology
business.industry
Rectal Neoplasms
Racial Groups
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Cancer
Hispanic or Latino
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Colorectal cancer screening
Family medicine
Colonic Neoplasms
Female
business
Attitude to Health
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00917435
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Preventive medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e2cbf488138587f4669fb405bd8f216e