Public perceptions of cancer: A qualitative study of the balance of positive and negative beliefs

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Robb, Kathryn A ^a   Simon, Alice E ^b   Miles, Anne ^c   Wardle, Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER THERAPY; DEMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; NEOPLASM; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC OPINION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC OPINION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904263187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005434     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Sontag S. Illness as metaphor. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1978.
2. Scanlon K, Harding S, Hunt K, et al. Potential barriers to prevention of cancers and to early cancer detection among Irish people living in Britain: a qualitative study. Ethn Health 2006;11:325-41.
3. Berman SH, Wandersman A. Fear of cancer and knowledge of cancer: a review and proposed relevance to hazardous-waste sites. Soc Sci Med 1990;32:81-90. (Pubitemid 20208262)
4. Helman S. Evolving paradigms and perceptions of cancer. Nat Clin Pract Oncol 2005;2:618-24.
5. Macdonald S, Watt G, Macleod U. In search of the cancer candidate: can lay epidemiology help? Sociol Health Illn 2012;35:575-91.
6. Livestrong Report. Cancer Stigma and Silence Around the World, 2011. http://www.livestrong.org/pdfs/3-0/LSGlobalResearchReport (accessed May 2014).
7. Cho J, Smith K, Choi EK, et al. Public attitudes toward cancer and cancer patients: a national survey in Korea. Psychooncology 2013;22:605-13.
8. Dein S. Explanatory models of and attitudes towards cancer in different cultures. Lancet Oncol 2004;5:119-24. (Pubitemid 38145895)
9. Peek M, Sayad J, Markwardt R. Fear, fatalism and breast cancer screening in low-income African-American women: the role of clinicians and the health care system. J Gen Intern Med 2008;23:1847-53.
10. Katz I, Hass RG, Parisi N, et al. Lay people's and health care personnel's perceptions of cancer, AIDS, cardiac, and diabetic patients. Psychol Rep 1987;60:615-29.
11. Burns N. Selecting a tool for measuring cancer attitudes. In: Frank-Stromborg M, Olsen SJ, eds. Instruments for clinical health research. Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2004:335-51.
12. Kearney N, Miller M, Paul J, et al. Oncology health care professionals' attitudes to cancer: a professional concern. Ann Oncol 2003;14:57-61. (Pubitemid 36150259)
13. Cancer Research UK. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/ cancerstats/types/breast/survival/breast-cancer-survival-statistics#Trends (accessed May 2014).
14. American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts & Figures 2013. http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurveilance/documents/ document/acspc-036845.pdf. (accessed Apr 2014).
15. Cancer Research UK. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/ cancerstats/types/bowel/survival/#trends. (accessed May 2014).
16. PACE A Lilly Oncology Initiative. A six-nation survey of cancer knowledge and attitudes among the general population, patients and caregivers 2012. https://pacenetwork.com/lilly-pace-global-report-nov-30.pdf. (accessed May 2014).
17. Keeney S, McKenna H, Fleming P, et al. Attitudes to cancer and cancer prevention: what do people aged 35-54 years think? Eur J Cancer Care (Engl) 2010;19:769-77.
18. Rutten LF, Hesse BW, Moser RP, et al. Public perceptions of cancer prevention, screening, and survival: comparison with state-of-science-evidence for colon, skin, and lung cancer. J Cancer Educ 2009;24:40-8.
19. Beeken RJ, Simon AE, von Wagner C, et al. Cancer fatalism: deterring early presentation and increasing social inequalities? Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2011;20:2127-31.
20. Forbes LJ, Simon AE, Warburton F, et al. Differences in cancer awareness and beliefs between Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK (the International Benchmarking Partnership): do they contribute to differences in cancer survival? Br J Cancer 2013;108:292-300.
21. Baron-Epel O, Klin A. Cancer as perceived by a middle-aged Jewish urban population in Israel. Oncol Nurs Forum 2009;36:E326-34.
22. Braun V, Clarke V. Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qual Res Psychol 2006;3:77-101.
23. United Kingdom Census 2001: Focus on ethnicity and identity data. Office for National Statistics. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference- tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-50846 (accessed Apr 2014).
24. Redmond K. Promoting better quality media coverage of cancer. Nat Clin Pract Oncol 2007;11:613. (Pubitemid 350020371)
25. Clarke JN, Everest MM. Cancer in the mass print media: fear, uncertainty and the medical model. Soc Sci Med 2006;62:2591-600.
26. Miles A, Rainbow S, von Wagner C. Cancer fatalism and poor self-rated health mediate the association between socioeconomic status and uptake of colorectal cancer screening in England. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2011;20:2132-40.
27. Niederpeppe J, Levy AG. Fatalistic beliefs about cancer prevention and three prevention behaviors. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2007;16:998-1003. (Pubitemid 46910103)
28. Keeley B, Wright L, Condit CM. Functions of health fatalism: fatalistic talk as face saving, uncertainty management, stress relief and sense making. Sociol Health Illn 2009;31:734-47.
29. Kahneman D. Thinking, Fast and Slow. London: Allen Lane, 2011.
30. Wilson TD, Lindsey S, Schooler TY. A model of dual attitudes. Psychol Rev 2000;107:101-26.
31. Strack F, Deutsch R. Reflective and impulsive determinants of social behaviour. Pers Soc Psychol 2004;8:220-47. (Pubitemid 39288823)
32. Epstein S. An integration of the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious. Amer Psychol 1994;49:709-24.
33. Cameron LD, Leventhal H, eds. The self-regulation of health and illness behavior. New York: Routledge, 2003.
34. Tversky A, Kahneman D. Judgment under uncertainty: heuristics and biases. Science 1974;185:1124-31.
35. Mukherjee S. The emperor of all maladies. London: Fourth Estate, 2011.
36. Jain SL. Malignant: How cancer becomes us. London: University of California Press, 2013.
37. Festinger L. A theory of cognitive dissonance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1957.
38. Loewenstein G, Weber EU, Hsee CK, et al. Risk as feelings. Psychol Bull 2001;127:267-86. (Pubitemid 33696171)
39. Evans J, St BT, Stanovich KE. Theory and metatheory in the study of dual processing: reply to comments. Perspect Psychol Sci 2013;8:263-71.
40. de Nooijer J, Lechner L, De Vries H. Help-seeking behaviour for cancer symptoms: perceptions of patients and general practitioners. Psychooncology 2001;10:469-78. (Pubitemid 33081033)