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Cognitive And Emotional Barriers To Colorectal Cancer Surveillance: Increasing Screening Rates Within The Community, Cari N. Krzyzaniak

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Background: The rate of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in the United States continues to be low, allowing colorectal cancers to remain undiagnosed and mortality rates to remain high. Current literature points to lack of education, healthcare access, and physician counseling as key barriers to screening, in addition to cognitive-emotional apprehensions.

Objectives: This study examined whether cognitive-emotional apprehensions are barriers to screening despite physician recommendation. Moreover, it examined what particular cognitive-emotional barriers inhibit participation and how these barriers can potentially be alleviated.

Methods: A convenience sample of 40 faculty members at Eastern Michigan University were surveyed about attitudes toward screening.

Results: …

Improving The Health Of Maine, One Employee At A Time, Jerry Whalen

Maine Policy Review

In this commentary, Jerry Whalen, an officer in Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems, discusses employee wellness programs and the importance of focusing on the workplace. He notes that managers and senior executives have a key role to play in ensuring success of employee wellness programs

Is Male Circumcision As Good As The Hiv Vaccine We’Ve Been Waiting For?, Jeffrey Klausner, Richard Wamai, Kasonde Bowa, Kawango Agot, Jesse Kagimba, Daniel Halperin

Richard G. Wamai

No abstract provided.

Male Circumcision Is An Efficacious, Lasting And Cost-Effective Strategy For Combating Hiv In High-Prevalence Aids Epidemics: Time To Move Beyond Debating The Science, Richard Wamai

Richard G. Wamai

Letter to the editor, from R.G. Wamai + 43 co-authors

Reducing Adolescents' Perceived Barriers To Treatment And Increasing Help-Seeking Intentions: Effects Of Classroom Presentations By General Practitioners., Coralie J. Wilson

Coralie J Wilson

The Building Bridges to General Practice (BBGP) program is an outreach initiative (written by the first author). It aims to reduce young peoples’ perceived knowledge- and belief-based barriers to engaging in treatment and to increase their behavioral intentions to consult a general medical practitioner (GP) for physical and psychological problems. By increasing intentions, the BBGP program aims to increase actual consultations with a GP for both types of problem. The current paper is the first of a series that report results from a larger multi-cite research project, developed and led by the first author, which examines the impact of BBGP …

Reducing Adolescents' Perceived Barriers To Treatment And Increasing Help-Seeking Intentions: Effects Of Classroom Presentations By General Practitioners., Coralie J. Wilson

Frank Deane

The Building Bridges to General Practice (BBGP) program is an outreach initiative (written by the first author). It aims to reduce young peoples’ perceived knowledge- and belief-based barriers to engaging in treatment and to increase their behavioral intentions to consult a general medical practitioner (GP) for physical and psychological problems. By increasing intentions, the BBGP program aims to increase actual consultations with a GP for both types of problem. The current paper is the first of a series that report results from a larger multi-cite research project, developed and led by the first author, which examines the impact of BBGP …

Cancer Disparities Among American Indians And Alaska Natives, Lisa M. Lines

Lisa M. Lines

The burden of cancer on AIAN patients is a complicated one. The low incidence rates among AIANs may be more a reflection of the low screening rates than a true lack of incident cancers in this population, and while death rates are related to incidence, 5-year survival rates are more related to stage at detection and receipt of treatment. The cancer burden is more severe for AIAN patients in part because of barriers to access, including financial, cultural, and geographic factors. Although some efforts have been made to address these disparities, a critical lack of studies and data hampers efforts …