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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Barriers to seeking help for skin cancer detection in Rural Australia |
Author: | Fennell, K. Martin, K. Wilson, C. Trenerry, C. Sharplin, G. Dollman, J. |
Citation: | Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2017; 6(2):19-1-19-13 |
Publisher: | MDPI AG |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
ISSN: | 2077-0383 2077-0383 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Kate M. Fennell, Kimberley Martin, Carlene J. Wilson, Camilla Trenerry, Greg Sharplin and James Dollman |
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. |
Keywords: | rural barrier help help-seeking skin cancer psychosocial physician-patient relations |
Description: | Published: 13 February 2017 |
Rights: | © 2017 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
DOI: | 10.3390/jcm6020019 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm6020019 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Psychology publications |
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