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| Title |
Cancer symptom awareness and barriers to medical help seeking in Scottish adolescents: a cross-sectional study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, October 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1117 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gill Hubbard, Iona Macmillan, Anne Canny, Liz Forbat, Richard D Neal, Ronan E O’Carroll, Sally Haw, Richard G Kyle |
| Abstract |
Initiatives to promote early diagnosis include raising public awareness of signs and symptoms of cancer and addressing barriers to seeking medical help about cancer. Awareness of signs and symptoms of cancer and emotional barriers, such as fear, worry, and embarrassment, strongly influence help seeking behaviour. Whether anxiety influences seeking medical help about cancer is not known. The purpose of this study about adolescents was to examine: 1) the relationship between contextual factors and awareness of signs and symptoms of cancer and barriers (including emotional barriers) to seeking medical help, and 2) associations between anxiety and endorsed barriers to seeking medical help. Interpretation of data is informed by the common sense model of the self-regulation of health and illness. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 17 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 9 | 53% |
| Australia | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 41% |
| Scientists | 7 | 41% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 12% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 119 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 118 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 13% |
| Researcher | 11 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 24 | 20% |
| Unknown | 29 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 24 | 20% |
| Psychology | 18 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 13 | 11% |
| Unknown | 34 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 December 2014.
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#3,098,530
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#3,564
of 15,466 outputs
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#36,397
of 263,167 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#62
of 264 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,881,329 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 15,466 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% of its peers.
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