Care-seeking behavior with breast cancer symptoms in Caucasian and African-American women.

Abstract:

:Based on a theory of care seeking, the influences of psychosocial variables (anxiety, utility beliefs, norm, and habit) and facilitators (e.g., an identified practitioner) on care-seeking behavior with a breast cancer symptom were examined. Also, the influences of variables not identified by the theory (e.g., optimism and race) on care-seeking behavior were examined. Participants were Caucasian (n = 64) and African-American women (n = 71) with breast symptoms. Care seeking was measured by the days between symptom detection and contact with the health system. Habit was associated with promptness, utility beliefs were associated with delay, and anxiety interacted with having an identified practitioner to explain care seeking. Optimism and having a friend with a breast symptom also were associated with promptness. Race had neither direct nor interactive effects on care seeking.

journal_name

Res Nurs Health

authors

Lauver D

doi

10.1002/nur.4770170605

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1994-12-01 00:00:00

pages

421-31

issue

6

eissn

0160-6891

issn

1098-240X

journal_volume

17

pub_type

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