Do perceived barriers and benefits vary by mammography stage?

Autor:	R. Gonin, Victoria L. Champion, Celette Sugg Skinner, M. Hanna
Rok vydání:	1997
Předmět:	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry medicine Mammography Health belief model Odds ratio Stage (cooking) business Social psychology Applied Psychology Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	Psychology, Health & Medicine. 2:65-75
ISSN:	1465-3966 1354-8506
Popis:	We investigated whether perceived barriers and benefits varied by stage of considering mammography. A total of 1,093 university employees completed questionnaires measuring constructs from the Transtheoretical and Health Belief Models. Action/Maintainers (the referent category) generally differed from Contemplators and Relapsers in perceived barriers and from Precontemplators and Contemplators in perceived benefits. Compared to Action/Maintainers, Relapsers were more likely to agree that mammograms take too much time; Contemplators and Relapsers were more likely to agree that mammograms are inconvenient, embarrassing, too costly, and hard to remember; and Precontemplators and Contemplators were less likely to agree that mammograms are painful. Lack of physician recommendation revealed the largest differences by stage (Precontemplators' odds ratios = 20.8, Contemplators' = 8.27, and Relapsers' = 4.05). For benefits, Precontemplators and Contemplators were less likely to agree that mammograms help ...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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