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

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    Author(s)
    Goodwin, Belinda C
    Chambers, Suzanne
    Aitken, Joanne
    Ralph, Nicholas
    March, Sonja
    Ireland, Michael
    Rowe, Arlen
    Crawford-Williams, Fiona
    Zajdlewicz, Leah
    Dunn, Jeff
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Chambers, Suzanne K.
    Year published
    2021
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    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 ...
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    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 <.001), those from higher socioeconomic (SES) areas (r = .100 , p = .012), and those with higher education levels (r = .247 , p < .001). Younger (r = -.161, p < .001), and female (r = .82, p = .013), participants were also slightly more likely to seek support specifically through cancer support groups. No significant relationships between minimising problems and resignation, needs for control and self-reliance or fatalism and detection via screening, support seeking, or perceived self-imposed delays to seeking medical attention were apparent, with the exception that those with higher fatalism (predetermined health) were slightly less likely to report seeking support or information online (OR = 0.79, CI = 0.65 - 0.95) and slightly more likely to report using Cancer Council's support services (OR = 1.24, CI = 1.02, 1.52). CONCLUSIONS: Strategies to improve the accessibility and appropriateness of support available for regional and remote cancer patients should consider interventions that remove barriers to access associated with age, gender, and education as opposed to those which address the attitudinal traits measured here. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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    Journal Title
    Psycho-oncology
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.5643
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    © 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Cancer‐related help seeking in cancer survivors living in regional and remote Australia, Psycho-Oncology, 2021, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.5643. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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    Subject
    Clinical sciences
    Oncology and carcinogenesis
    Psychology
    attitudes
    cancer
    early detection
    rural health
    screening
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/402004
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