ArticleBritish journal of cancer2013
Class, race and ethnicity and information avoidance among cancer survivors.
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- Effects of Exposure to Conflicting Information About Mammography on Cancer Information Overload, Perceived Scientists' Credibility, and Perceived Journalists' Credibility.Health communication · 2023Article
- Greater fertility distress and avoidance relate to poorer decision making about family building after cancer among adolescent and young adult female survivors.Psycho-oncology · 2023Article
- Bridging the ICT Revolution and Communication Inequality: Lessons for Cancer Survivors.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2023Article
- Research on the Process and Influencing Factors of Online Diabetes Information Users' Avoidance Behavior: A Qualitative Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Emotional responses to COVID-19 stressors increase information avoidance about an important unrelated health threat.PloS one · 2023Article
- Online Health Information Seeking Among Patients With Chronic Conditions: Integrating the Health Belief Model and Social Support Theory.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Article
- What Causes Health Information Avoidance Behavior under Normalized COVID-19 Pandemic? A Research from Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Disparities in HPV knowledge by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic position: Trusted sources for the dissemination of HPV information.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2021Article
- Media Exposure, Cancer Beliefs, and Cancer-Related Information-Seeking or Avoidance Behavior Patterns in China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundInformation seeking may increase cancer survivors' ability to make decisions and cope with the disease, but many also avoid cancer information after diagnosis. The social determinants and subsequent communication barriers that lead to avoidance have not been explored. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of social determinants on information avoidance among cancer survivors.
methodsWe examined how health information avoidance is associated with structural and individual factors in a mail-based survey of 519 cancer survivors. Factor analysis was conducted to determine barriers to obtaining cancer information, and multivariable logistic regression models by gender were run to analyze social determinants of avoidance from an intersectional approach.
resultsParticipants who were younger, female, had greater debt and lower income, and had difficulty finding suitable information were more likely to avoid information. The probability of information avoidance increased when survivors reported barriers to information use or comprehension.
conclusionThese results indicate that survivors' information avoidance may be driven, in part, by social determinants, particularly among those at the intersection of multiple social status categories. Customized strategies are needed that maximize the likelihood that information will be used by vulnerable groups such as those from a lower socioeconomic position.
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