ArticleJournal of bioethical inquiry2020
Is There a Gender Self-Advocacy Gap? An Empiric Investigation Into the Gender Pain Gap.
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- Self-advocacy training within a peer navigation model in advanced cancer: a pilot study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
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- A mixed method study of menstrual health in Spain: pain, disorders, and the journey for health.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Women's experiences of seeking healthcare for abdominal pain in Ireland: a qualitative study.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- Is self-advocacy universally achievable for patients? The experiences of Australian women with cardiac disease in pregnancy and postpartum.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2023Article
- "I pretty much followed the law, and there weren't any decisions to make": A qualitative study of self-advocacy experiences of men with cancer.Nursing & health sciences · 2022Article
- No Man (or Woman) Is an Island?Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2020Article
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Abstract
There are documented differences in the efficacy of medical treatment for pain for men and women. Women are less likely to have their pain controlled and receive less treatment than men. We are investigating one possible explanation for this gender pain gap: that there is a difference in how women and men report their pain to physicians, and so there is a difference in how physicians understand their pain. This paper describes an exploratory study into gendered attitudes towards reporting uncontrolled pain to a physician. This exploratory study provided subjects with a vignette describing a situation in which their pain is not being treated adequately and asked them questions about their attitudes towards self-advocacy and the strategies they would likely use to express themselves. We found that women scored higher than men on measures of patient likelihood to self-advocate. Women also reported intending to use more varied self-advocacy strategies than men. This suggests it is unlikely that patient's communication styles are to blame for the gender pain gap.
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