Factors associated with delayed patient appraisal of colorectal cancer symptoms

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 981-988

  Siminoff, Laura ^a   Thomson, Maria ^b   Dumenci, Levent ^b  

^a Department of Kinesiology   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

appraisal delay; cognitive barriers; colorectal cancer; financial barriers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSTIPATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIET; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE; HEMORRHOID; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT CARE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SELF EVALUATION; STRESS ULCER; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84906934422     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.3506     Document Type: Article

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